<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 1:38 PM, tim Rowledge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tim@rowledge.org" target="_blank">tim@rowledge.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On 22-05-2014, at 3:47 PM, tim Rowledge <<a href="mailto:tim@rowledge.org">tim@rowledge.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> It’s something to do with SoundService default etc.<br>
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</div>I’m still trying to puzzle out why on earth we ended up with the system beep being involved in a complex services regime. The beep is supposed to be a trivially simple way to get a noise out of the system when you need to have some alert that doesn’t rely upon anything complex. That’s why it is a primitive; that way if you need something more complex because a noise isn’t appropriate (or possible?) you can make it flash a light or set off some dynamite, or (rather mundanely) write to a console.<br>
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Did anyone come up with an especially good reason for the complication? I’m willing to be persuaded if there is a good argument.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>However it happened, and I can imagine that some well-meaning soul thought that an audio notification of a bug would be useful, I think we need to at the very least make it an option that is disabled by default. It is incredibly annoying to be prompted for a sound system selection while running the tests. It is worse that images crash when they raise notifiers.</div>
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</div>Strange OpCodes: FSE: Fake Serious Error<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>best,<div>Eliot</div>
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