Some ideas...

["Michael Adams" <madleech hotmail com>]

hi,
i've been following the gnome sound project for a while now, and i've had a 
few ideas...

[ What should sound do? ]

(food for thought)

For a start, I think that sound in gnome should give feed back to the user 
about what is happening. For example, when a user moves over a button, we 
already have the 'pre-light' function, but what about a soft 'pop.' Ditto 
for when a user clicks on a button, although the sound should be more 
positive, probably a 'click.'

I recommend that all those on this list take a good look at enlightenment, 
and it's 'brushed metal - tigert' theme, which features sounds for actions 
such a s closing a windows etc. Once you have experienced the added 
dimension of sound in a theme, it is hard to go back to an ordinary 'mute' 
theme.

So therefore, sound really MUST be part of Gnome, up there in themes.org, 
possibly with the sound themes intergrated with gtk themes, although 
separate as well if a user wants.

Also, just an idea, but what about going a little bit further and having a 
complete sequencer. I mean, you know how electronic music is often 
repetitive, or at least follows a pattern, well, why not have a basic beat 
in the bg when you start, and then as the user types stuff, clicks, moves 
windows, whatever... those events get added to the sound que, and the 
sequencer program (daemon?) reads these, layering the sounds up on top of 
the basic beat in time to the music. You could download extra sounds and 
genres etc. Just an idea, but could be quite cool to give go!

Similar to this , but a bit 'lower' is 'Type writer, v1' which is a simple 
windows program that responds to every key press with a tap and spaces with 
a slide sound, a line returns (enter) with  the appropriate typewriter 
sound. In addition, the sounds can be changed to fireworks and explosions, 
which is quite cool. note: windows only. still, it is quite nice to get 
aural (sp?) feed for those of us who have stiff keys and and don't touce 
type (!)

A bit more... for our sound panel, it sound be so that a user can drag a 
sound file from the gnome filer, or ROX-Filer onto the appropriate event. 
Then once done, just drag the completed sound theme (through an icon or 
something) back into your filer to save it.

It's that extra little bit that counts.

thanks,
michael adams...
madleech hotmail com
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