Re: Sound themes and metacity sounds

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 12:34 +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
> On Sun, 22 May 2005 10:31:57 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > I think the lack of metacity sounds and sound themes probably have the
> > most to do with the difficulty of creating sounds - we don't seem to
> > have anyone working on creating good, original sounds.
> 
> There are a fair few out there:
> 
>   http://kde-look.org/index.php?xcontentmode=25
> 
> At the moment the only ones I can find are created for KDE, I guess
> because GNOME doesn't really support them. They're often surprisingly
> professional.
> 
> Right now non-hardware sound mixing is only just becoming reliable enough
> that ambient sounds work well - I don't know about you guys but I normally
> listen to music whilst working which makes notification/usability noises
> pretty pointless unless dmix or a sound server is active. Updating the

Right now, every time sound events are activated, so is esound (this
should probably be fixed, as ALSA solutions are getting implemented in
most Linux distributions), so we can assume that simultaneous sounds can
be played.

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>