Re: [gNewSense-art] Sounds for login

[Graziano]

On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:22:43 +0100, Sam Geeraerts 
<address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.

Me too.


> 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.



I agree with the science fiction idea but I listened to the sound you 
proposed and found it a bit too "aggressive" to be a login sound IMHO.

We should find something more relaxing.


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Graziano
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