Public bug reported:
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
** Affects: gnome-games (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 lucid wishlist
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Please enable sounds by default
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/533040
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