Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4417 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

These days we use laptops, so the speaker is built in. It doesn't 
indicate progress of anything, it's perhaps telling you that you've just 
changed desktops or opened a window -- but you know that and that's what 
you wanted NOW. It 's an instant annoyance, especially if someone 
doesn't yet know their way around Linux and KDE. Imagine an office or 
library with this noise for noise sake going off, soon someone is going 
to tell you to turn that darn thing off. I know it mimicks Windows where 
it is turned off by default and stays that way almost universally, it's 
a pity M$ didn't patent it or threatened court action over it rather 
than the much saner and nicer "Where do you want to go tomorrow" they 
made KDE drop.
I just thought I'd voice something that others have spent a while 
battling to silence.
Looks like my view was the contrary one, not yours.
Regards
Sid.

Bryan Feeney wrote:

> > Also in an office environment, somebody is likely to sling
> > you and/or your machine out  the nearest window together
> > with the jingle.
>
> I've worked in 4 offices at this stage, two multi-nationals, a medium 
> sized business and currently the civil service. Barring the shiny 
> black computer the boss inevitably gets I've NEVER seen speakers in an 
> office environment (hell, 7 years ago some office PCs didn't even come 
> with soundcards). And in terms of usability, it's the aural equivalent 
> of a progress meter, so they're unlikely to ditch it for that reason.
>
> Just felt like being contrary ;-)



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