From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/6950 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Peters Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: xpm-m... Uhm. Date: 25 Jun 1996 14:36:13 -0700 Sender: speters@us.oracle.com Message-ID: References: <199606240040.UAA15902@condor.ryerson.ca> <199606252045.NAA00305@monolith.spry.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035147333 5386 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:55:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:55:33 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA18715 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 15:14:13 -0700 Original-Received: from inet-smtp-gw-1.us.oracle.com (inet-smtp-gw-1.us.oracle.com [192.86.155.81]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 23:36:23 +0200 Original-Received: from oracle.us.oracle.com by inet-smtp-gw-1.us.oracle.com with ESMTP (8.6.12/37.7) id OAA08117; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 14:36:16 -0700 Original-Received: from samsun.us.oracle.com by oracle.us.oracle.com with ESMTP (8.6.9/37.7) id OAA11137; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 14:36:16 -0700 Original-Received: by samsun.us.oracle.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA16989; Tue, 25 Jun 1996 14:36:14 -0700 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: William Perry's message of Tue, 25 Jun 1996 13:45:28 -0700 Original-Lines: 25 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.9/Emacs 19.31 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6950 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6950 William Perry 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. -- Stephen L. Peters speters%samsun@us.oracle.com For PGP key, use keyservers or send email with subject: SEND PGP KEY PGP fingerprint: BFA4 D0CF 8925 08AE 0CA5 CCDD 343D 6AC6 Oracle won't speak for me, so I won't speak for them.