Re: [Usability] The Pathetic State of the GNU/Linux Desktop

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 05:55 -0500, Jacob Beauregard wrote:
>  
> What you fail to interpret is that a worded description is not the only 
> way to identify something using audio, much in the same way we don't 
> rely on text when using icons.

I guess what you're getting at here is 'earcons':
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~stephen/generalearcons/generalearcons1.shtml

It would certainly be cool to see somebody doing some work on this in
the Unix/Linux desktop space, maybe you could rustle up some interest on
the accessibility mailing lists.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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