New Sound Event

[Damian Eads]

I guess I glossed over that one because I didn't know what it meant.
What is the condition for a message being considered a new
conversation? When an IM conversation tab doesn't already exist for a
friend or after a certain time has elapsed with no messages from a
friend? If it's a time out, how much time?

Thanks!

Damian

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Ankit Singla <anksingla at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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