Andrew, On Sunday 29 May 2005 15:21, Andrew Beames wrote:
On Sunday 29 May 2005 22:44, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Andreas,
On Sunday 29 May 2005 14:32, Andreas Philipp wrote:
El Dom 29 May 2005 16:10, Randall R Schulz escribió:
Well, even though most of those action sounds are utterly inane to me, keep in mind it includes KMail's notification sounds, the terminal beep in Konsole and probably some other sounds emitted by KDE apps you probably don't want squelched.
If I had KMail beep on me every time I receive a message on this and other high traffic lists, I would go insane.
Of course. Getting a sound on every mail transfer that retrieves one or more messages would be excessive for many of us.
But there are some mailboxes / lists / senders from whom I do want to be notified, and I've enabled sound actions and distinctive sounds with the filters that handle to those few classes of messages.
Alternatively, install festival and set up a filter to "tell" you who the mail is from: echo "new mail from mum" | festival --tts
No ... THANK ... _*YOU*_!!! Gag. I can't stand the stupid elevator at work that tells me it's "going up" and "going down" and "third floor" and all that nonsense. There's precious little for which vocal output from a computer is to my taste. Gag. By the way, I gave it a try. It's one of the poorer implementations of algorithmic text-to-speech I've heard. And lastly, I think that sound is an underused form of information output, but speech? No way. It needs much technical improvement before it's even an option, and even then, there just isn't much for which it's better than textual output.
Regards,
A.
Randall Schulz