Defaults for sound events - please be less noisy

[Till Varoquaux]

It could be indeed very interesting to be able to mute the whole thing
at log-in.

Last year I worked at a public library once in a while. Windows
computers are a real nuisance (you here the default log-in sound at
least once every 10 minutes). I'd hate to see Ubuntu follow down the
same road....

Maybe, if this option can't be easily added in gdm, we should switch
to an opt-in mode rather than an opt-out mode.
Till

On 10/4/05, Adam Conrad <adconrad at 0c3.net> wrote:
> 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
>
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