Defaults for sound events - please be less noisy

[Adam Conrad]

Matthias Klose wrote:
> One of the things, that almost everybody seems to do when working in a
> room shared with other (human beeings) is to turn off the sound at all,
> or turn off the most annoying sound events.
> 
> These are observations for larger installations and (of course) personal
>  opinions. Looking at other OSes, you see these enabled (WinXX), or
> disabled (MacXX).

This is on the agenda for Dapper/UBZ, but I think there may be some Real
Work required to make everyone (people who like lots of audio feedback,
people who prefer none, etc) happy, not the least of which is making the
GNOME sound events control panel have a concept of sound themes.

Currently, the only decent way to "turn off all sounds for now, but
revert later" is just to mute the whole sound system, because you can't
switch to a "silent theme" and then back to "default" (nor tailor
"default" and save it as "doko's default", etc).

... Adam