** Changed in: gnome-games
Status: New => Fix Released
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Title:
Please enable sounds by default
Status in GNOME Games:
Fix Released
Status in “gnome-games” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
Binary package hint: gnome-games
With the update of various games in gnome-games to use Clutter, they
are much more visually appealing, animated and exciting feeling. When
sounds are enabled, they seem to synchronize better with what is
happening and add life to the scene. (This is different from
previously, where sounds had less of an impact due to the complete
lack of interesting animation to complement them). Some games seem to
have improved sounds, to boot!
Given this change, I think it would be natural to enable sounds by default in
all these games, at least downstream. (Maybe for Lucid? That would be exciting;
the new games selection will be getting some attention this release, after all).
At the moment, sounds tend to be disabled by default. This is a shame because
it is very unlikely they will even be discovered. In Quadrapassel, for example,
sounds are toggled from the Preferences menu, but this option is unavailable
while a game is ongoing. (And nobody wants to quit a good game of, err, falling
block sorting). Similar scenario in most others.
There is a perfectly good volume control with a Mute option for the
case where a user does not wish to be heard. Sound should be opt-out
in that fashion, as it is for any other entertainment software we
ship.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Mar 5 16:37:14 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: gnome-games 1:2.29.91-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-15.22-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-games
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-15-generic i686
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