On Sun, 01 May 2016 12:50:03 +1000 Alexander Zangerl <a...@snafu.priv.at> wrote:
> run-mailcap is the only mechanism that i'm aware of that doesn't > insist on a particular choice of sound application - but feel free to > correct me there. The only alternative I could think of is the "alternatives" system. Maybe you could put out the word that exmh wants a "/etc/alternatives/minimal-audio-player" or something like that, and then try and convince the packagers of the appropriate audio player apps to update their packages to register themselves as such. I suppose for best results, you'd also want to document what the expected behavior of this "minimal-audio-player" would be. I'm not familiar with the politics of the debian-developer world, so I have no idea how difficult that would be. Also, I'm of the opinion that audio feedback in a mail application (and most non-audio applications) is a terrible idea, and not worth putting much effort into, but I'm aware that I'm usually in the minority with my opinions about UI. > the next version of the exmh package will ship with a default config > that has audio disabled, and people will have to explicitly set their > own sound player commands; i've also added example invocations to the > help text on the audio preferences page. Thank you. This is exactly the result I was hoping for. -- Brian Sammon <debian-b...@brisammon.fastmail.fm>
