On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <ase...@kde.org> wrote:
> On Thursday, May 30, 2013 09:13:37 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > > I don't think it's a good idea to disable login sounds. > > Sure, they have no practical use, but they are a very important part of > > sound branding ( > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_trademark#Sound_branding ). That's > why > > The reasons for having turned off the login sound are: > > * It often starts at an unpredictable time due to the mechanics of the > startup > procedure and the wonder that is free software audio; this is only going to > become worse as we move to increasingly parallelized startup where > dependencies are determined at runtime by access (the systemd model, e.g.) > > * The sounds for KDE are not well integrated into the branding. That the > log > in/out sounds are extremely long does not help. > > * They is no realistic benefit to our branding from the sound due to low > public > usage (as you noted in your own email) > > * They are configurable .. which destroys hope of branding > > * They are annoying as hell (regardless of platform). We've opted for > elegance > for the user rather than attempts to inject our brand into the environment. > > Things that could improve the above and which would cause at least me to > re- > assess this decision: > > * Integrate the startup sound with either the splash screen or the session > manager (e.g. ksmserver), skip the knotification thing path altogether and > ensure the sound is played via a low-(enough-)latency mechanism. This would > remove some of the awkwardness of the current sound timing. > > * Produce a sound that is actually memorable, meshes with the KDE branding > goals (e.g. projection of elegance) and is no more than a couple seconds > long. > A simple, calm, recognizable sound that lasts ~1 second would be great > imho. > > -- > Aaron J. Seigo > > _______________________________________________ > This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. > > Visit https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set > digest on or temporarily stop your subscription. > I think that having a bad sound shouldn't be confused with not wanting it at all. Also I don't think that making it configurable would defeat the purpose if it's the user who decides to change it: configurability has been part of our branding for longer than I can remember. Aleix
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