Carl, Dylan, On Tuesday 13 September 2005 11:12, Dylan wrote:

On Tuesday 13 Sep 2005 15:35, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

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Why are event sounds in KDE and Gnome wav files. Why not ogg?

Because the overhead of decoding an ogg on such a small file would be over the top. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the ogg ended up being larger than the wav for a simple ping sound, and the replay became disconnected from the triggering event due to the decode lag.

Dylan

The premise of this discussion is invalid, though Dylan's observation holds. To wit: %ls -sx /opt/kde3/share/sounds total 5240 16 k3b_error1.wav 48 k3b_success1.wav 4 k3b_wait_media1.wav 12 KDE_Beep_Ahem.wav 4 KDE_Beep_Beep.wav 8 KDE_Beep_Bottles.wav 8 KDE_Beep_Car.ogg 4 KDE_Beep_ClassicBeep.wav 8 KDE_Beep_Classic.ogg 4 KDE_Beep_ClockChime.wav 16 KDE_Beep_Connect.ogg 16 KDE_Beep_Connect.wav 8 KDE_Beep_Digital_1.ogg 8 KDE_Beep_Digital_2.ogg 8 KDE_Beep_Door.wav 8 KDE_Beep_Double.ogg 8 KDE_Beep_Harsh.ogg 4 KDE_Beep_Honk.wav 12 KDE_Beep_Lightning.wav 8 KDE_Beep.ogg 8 KDE_Beep_Phone_1.ogg 8 KDE_Beep_Phone_2.ogg 4 KDE_Beep_Pop.wav 16 KDE_Beep_RimShot.wav 8 KDE_Beep_RingRing.wav 4 KDE_Beep_ShortBeep.wav 8 KDE_Beep_Yo.wav 16 KDE_Bottles.ogg 32 KDE_Chimes_1.ogg 24 KDE_Chimes_2.ogg 32 KDE_Chimes_3.ogg 8 KDE_Click_1.ogg 8 KDE_Click_2.ogg 4 KDE_Click_3.ogg 4 KDE_Click.wav 28 KDE_Close_Window.wav 180 KDE_Critical_Error.wav 32 KDE_Desktop_1.ogg 8 KDE_Desktop1.wav 40 KDE_Desktop_2.ogg 8 KDE_Desktop2.wav 36 KDE_Desktop_3.ogg 8 KDE_Desktop3.wav 40 KDE_Desktop_4.ogg 8 KDE_Desktop4.wav 36 KDE_Desktop_5.ogg 8 KDE_Desktop5.wav 36 KDE_Desktop_6.ogg 8 KDE_Desktop6.wav 40 KDE_Desktop_7.ogg 8 KDE_Desktop7.wav 40 KDE_Desktop_8.ogg 8 KDE_Desktop8.wav 28 KDE_Dialog_Appear.ogg 60 KDE_Dialog_Appear.wav 28 KDE_Dialog_Disappear.ogg 80 KDE_Dialog_Disappear.wav 12 KDE_Door.ogg 24 KDE_Drum_Break.ogg 28 KDE_Error_1.ogg 8 KDE_Error_2.ogg 8 KDE_Error_3.ogg 28 KDE_Error.wav 28 KDE_Event_1.ogg 28 KDE_Event_2.ogg 16 KDE_Event_3.ogg 16 KDE_Event_4.ogg 20 KDE_Event_5.ogg 12 KDE_Glass_Break.ogg 8 KDE_Keyboard_Key_1.ogg 76 KDE_Logout_1.ogg 44 KDE_Logout_2.ogg 36 KDE_Logout_3.ogg 536 KDE_Logout_new.wav 132 KDE_Logout.wav 92 KDE_Notify.wav 8 KDE_Pop.ogg 44 KDE_Star_Ship_1.ogg 124 KDE_Startup_1.ogg 140 KDE_Startup_2.ogg 108 KDE_Startup_3.ogg 952 KDE_Startup_new.wav 360 KDE_Startup.wav 12 KDE_TypeWriter_Bell.ogg 12 KDE_TypeWriter_End_Of_Line.ogg 8 KDE_TypeWriter_Key_1.ogg 8 KDE_TypeWriter_Key_2.ogg 12 KDE_TypeWriter_Reload.ogg 8 KDE_TypeWriter_Scroll.ogg 16 KDE_Vox_Ahem.ogg 16 KDE_Vox_Yo.ogg 4 KDE_Warp.ogg 8 KDE_Water_Drop.ogg 12 KDE_Window_Close.ogg 200 KDE_Window_Close.wav 16 KDE_Window_DeIconify.ogg 28 KDE_Window_DeIconify.wav 24 KDE_Window_Hide.ogg 16 KDE_Window_Iconify.ogg 28 KDE_Window_Iconify.wav 28 KDE_Window_Maximize.wav 12 KDE_Window_Open.ogg 300 KDE_Window_Open.wav 28 KDE_Window_Shade_Down.ogg 24 KDE_Window_Shade_Down.wav 28 KDE_Window_Shade_Up.ogg 24 KDE_Window_Shade_Up.wav 8 KDE_Window_Sticky.ogg 20 KDE_Window_Sticky.wav 24 KDE_Window_UnHide.ogg 44 KDE_Window_UnMaximize.wav 16 KDE_Window_UnSticky.ogg 24 KDE_Window_UnSticky.wav 28 Kopete_Event.ogg 28 Kopete_Received.ogg 36 Kopete_Sent.ogg 84 Kopete_User_is_Online.ogg 4 pop.wav Randall Schulz