On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 15:04, Walter Wittel <[email protected]> wrote:
> An alternative to a mute button might be to sample the ambient sound level > using the mic (should work for most laptops, less so for desktops, but they > likely have volume set for location already) and adjust volume > appropriately. > haaah yeah ambient intelligence ;) http://ambient.media.mit.edu/people/pranav/current/sparsh.html these guys had that name, but went for "fluid interfaces" after a while. A startup sound should be an audible notification that the system is now loaded and ready to be used. Any sound that doesn't convey this information would be a nuisance and of course we would then need to have ambient intelligence, mute buttons in the login screen and so on and so forth.. The only way i see to really tackle this is to offer a silent boot in grub, for those who don't like to hear the startup sound, and to design a semantically useful startup sound in the first place, so hearing the start sound can finally make sense for the first time, no matter what taste in music you have.
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