Re: xpm-m... Uhm.

[Stephen Peters <speters%samsun@us.oracle.com>]

William Perry <wmperry@monolith.spry.com> writes:
> Per Abrahamsen writes:
> >It should be really simple to implement, just add a new entry to
> >`gnus-button-alist' for each sound effect, and write a function to
> >play the sound.  By default it could just cat a file into /dev/audio.
> >
> >Then, **Evil Laugh** would become a button that would play the sound
> >when pushed. 
>
>   Nah... no interaction from the user should be required. :) How
> about hooking into the redisplay hooks like lazy-lock does?  When a
> region is exposed via window-resizing or scrolling, etc, and new
> earcons are exposed, it plays the sound.

Well, the problem with that is that these sounds should *enhance* the
message, not *detract* from it.  If your screen is 50 lines high, and
down on the last line there's a `*giggle*', then you want to hear
girlish laughter when you read the last line, not when the
gnus-annoy-my-coworkers routine first displays it.

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