[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 145324] I am missing the “Provide feedback with sound" Word feature

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145324

Michael Weghorn <m.weghorn at posteo.de> changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Michael Weghorn <m.weghorn at posteo.de> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #4)
> This feedback is a very subtle jingle played on insertion and deletion.
> Hardly improving accessibility, IMO. If we implement something similar it
> would probably be combined with uno:Delete commands - and consequently
> playing every time you press delete. Quite annoying.
> 
> So I don't see the advantage. Do you, Michael?

If this is really just about playing a sound on insertion/deletion, I
personally don't see a huge gain in the use cases I can think of right now
either.

(In reply to MJ.connect from comment #0)
> After changing over from Word to LO (7.2.1.2) completely, I am missing the
> “Provide feedback with sound" feature so much. Please could it be included.
> Whilst reading about this issue, I learned that I am not the only one. In
> Word, it can be activated or deactivated and in control panel of Windows
> under Sound - Sounds it can be defined and controlled..
> 
> I read that certain ppl consider this feature as unimportant and not
> necessary. For them, this might be true for real. But luckily ppl have
> different tastes. I belong to the category who integrated sounds into the
> workflow, means that I do not have to look at it because I already heard it.

Can you describe the use cases/workflows and advantages of this a bit further?

I just quickly tried with Word ("Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 MSO (Version
2211 Build 16.0.15831.20220) 64-bit") on Windows 10 22H2). Activated the
feature according to [1] and it's unclear to me how to know or configure on
what events a sound is played. I see nothing specific for Word/MSO in control
panel's "Sound" -> "Sounds".

If the idea is that there is a generic way for apps to integrate into the
Windows sound configuration by providing modules or somesuch (similar to what
is e.g. possible in KDE Plasma's notification configuration that allows for
app-specific modules), some documentation on how to integrate into that would
be useful. (Or is this something Microsoft-specific and third party apps can't
get integrated into this, but would have to implement their complete own
handling of sounds,...?)

[1]
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/getting-started-with-office-sounds-49fda9be-cce5-4c72-a87f-b11000197f5f

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