Re: [gNewSense-art] Sounds for login

[Sam Geeraerts]

Graziano wrote:
> Just to know, am I the only one to hate hearing sound when you start up?
>
> Should we decide if we do want a sound at all before choosing which sound?

I usually turn it off too, because it's yet another resource consumer 
and I mostly like/need quiet.

On the other hand, I have been in situations where my monitor remained 
black, but I could hear from the sounds that the rest of the system 
worked fine and that I could log in. So it serves some diagnostic 
purpose. It can also serve a marketing purpose by contributing to the 
wow-effect (or at least an 'it works' effect) when logging in.

That said, we should only include a login sound if we get something 
good. Frankly, "real" astronomy sounds (e.g. pulsars) are boring. I'm 
thinking more science fiction than science. E.g. something along the 
lines of the intro to Babylon Zoo's Spaceman. For length the aim should 
be around 3 seconds. Certainly not longer than 5 seconds.