Re: gnome-triggers/gnome-sound/sound events

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Elliot Lee wrote:
> 
 
> When programs want to generate a .soundlist type of sound event (such as
> "button clicked" or whatever) they ask gnome-session (via
> gnome_client_app_event()) to make it happen.
> 
> So aside from s/gnome_triggers_do/gnome_client_app_event/, there's no
> change from the app's viewpoint (and not many apps use this API anyways).
> The main gain is from removing the dependency of tons of apps on libesd
> and libaudiofile, to decrease startup time, memory footprint, and
> dependencies in general.
> 
> -- Elliot

This has the added benefit of making it easy to support alternate,
non-audio 'notifications' if the audio file is actually conveying
(non-redundant) information.  This is good for accessibility for
hearing impaired (and the audio-driver-impaired ;-)

-Bill

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Bill Haneman
Gnome Accessibility / Batik SVG Toolkit
Sun Microsystems Ireland