Defaults for sound events - please be less noisy

[Øivind Hoel]

I second this. I'm often weary of switching on my laptop in study
halls, libraries and the like at my university because of two things:
The RAMDAMDAMDA sound gdm spits out, and the loooong gnome login
sound. If I muted my sound the last time I used the computer, then
sure, everything is fine and dandy, but if I can't remember - I'll
just sit there forever without touching my beloved lap..top :-)

An option to disable the sound server at gdm login would be excellent.
Hope it's something that will surface in dapper...

Ø

On 10/4/05, Till Varoquaux <till.varoquaux at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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