New Sound Event

Ankit Singla anksingla at gmail.com
Sun Mar 23 22:21:39 EDT 2008


Well, in Pidgin you can enable and disable certain types of sounds in 
the preference window. What about only enabling the "message begins 
conversation" sound?

Ankit

Damian Eads wrote:
> It would be hard for her to do this if she does not know where I am
> and I don't have a cell phone.
>
> However, honestly, I can't think of any of my colleagues who actually
> have said they activate any of their sound events. When asking many of
> them whether they'd use such a hypothetical feature, almost all of
> them said they would. This feature proposal is for a sound event that
> people might actually use. Why not make it so the "Sounds"
> functionality is used by a lot more people?
>
> Damian
>
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Dave Mitzman <mitzman at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Um, wouldn't it be easier if Alice just called you?  Playing devil's
>> advocate here.
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Damian Eads <damian.eads at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've been using Pidgin/Gaim for over a decade and love it! One common
>>> thing I and my colleagues do is set all the sounds off. With a large
>>> buddy list and lots of buddies messaging, coming and going, the sounds
>>> can get really distracting, especially when someone's trying to
>>> concentrate on work. However, occassionally, someone (let's say Alice)
>>> will try to get ahold of me (or vice versa) for hours but the gaim
>>> window will get lost in a sea of windows. At lunch, Alice might say to
>>> me "Why did you turn your sounds off? I needed to talk to you about
>>> the meeting this afternoon!" And I'll say, "I turn them off because if
>>> they were on, I would never get any work done!"
>>>
>>> I propose the following feature: Whenever someone messages you X times
>>> without receiving a response in Y minutes, play a sound. For example,
>>> if my friend Alice messages me 3 times in the past 20 minutes, play a
>>> beep. Now, that's much less distracting and it unobtrusively notifies
>>> me that she needs me. One nice property of this feature is that there
>>> is no way for any one person to flood me with tons of messages in a Y
>>> minute period and generate more than a single beep.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> Thanks again for the great software!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Damian Eads
>>>       
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