New Sound Event
Damian Eads
damian.eads at gmail.com
Sun Mar 23 23:08:54 EDT 2008
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
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