Public bug reported:
If I have a sound file on my desktop, and I have my cursor over it, it
plays. This leads to very annoying behaviours. Firefox, by default,
saves files to the desktop (which is annoying in itself). If you
download a sound file, or otherwise end up with one on the desktop (or,
presumably, an open window) and happen to leave the cursor in the wrong
place, e.g. in a meeting, in a cubicle farm, or anywhere else, the
computer starts making loud, obnoxious sounds.
This behaviour is poor, obnoxious, and highly counter-intuitive. The
benefits of being able to preview sound files seem like they'd be
outweighed by the lost jobs and obnoxiousness this can inadvertently
cause. The hover delay is also just long enough that you don't
immediately know why the sound started playing the first time it
happens.
It is also not obvious where one would disable this behaviour (right-
clicking on a sound file brings no hints)
In general, computers should spontaneously make sounds without prompting
-- if they do, it becomes much harder to use them in public areas, like
offices with cubicle farms, meetings, etc.
I am running Ubuntu 9.04.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
If I have a sound file on my desktop, and I have my cursor over it, it
plays. This leads to very annoying behaviours. Firefox, by default,
saves files to the desktop (which is annoying in itself). If you
download a sound file, or otherwise end up with one on the desktop (or,
presumably, an open window) and happen to leave the cursor in the wrong
place, e.g. in a meeting, in a cubicle farm, or anywhere else, the
computer starts making loud, obnoxious sounds.
This behaviour is poor, obnoxious, and highly counter-intuitive. The
benefits of being able to preview sound files seem like they'd be
outweighed by the lost jobs and obnoxiousness this can inadvertently
cause. The hover delay is also just long enough that you don't
immediately know why the sound started playing the first time it
happens.
+ It is also not obvious where one would disable this behaviour (right-
+ clicking on a sound file brings no hints)
+
+ In general, computers should spontaneously make sounds without prompting
+ -- if they do, it becomes much harder to use them in public areas, like
+ offices with cubicle farms, meetings, etc.
+
I am running Ubuntu 9.04.
--
When I hover a mouse over a sound file, it plays.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/379996
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