[linux-audio-user] Re: rosegarden without KDE?

Loki Davison loki.davison at gmail.com
Fri Feb 24 23:48:27 EST 2006


On 2/25/06, fons adriaensen <fons.adriaensen at skynet.be> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 10:16:59PM +0100, Petter Sundlöf wrote:
>
> > fons adriaensen wrote:
> >
> > >Why should K3B play ugly desktop sounds when it finishes
> > >burning a CD ?
> > (...)
> > >And you can't even disable this madness except via
> > >the KDE 'control center'. Why should I even consider
> > >running that when I don't use KDE ?
> >
> > Settings>Configure K3b>Notifications...
> >
> > doesn't require any control center to be launched.
>
> Are you referring to some menu ? Then
>
> - How should I know that "Notifications" means to output
>   sounds at maximum level ? For all I know it refers to
>   some essential interaction between the CD drive and the
>   software. I trust the defaults and I don't want to touch
>   it.
>
> - Why aren't these sounds *disabled* by default ? When
>   I want to burn a CD, I don't expect the software that
>   I'm using to go online, format a partition, rename my
>   files, play sounds, charm my girlfriend, ...
>
>
> I wrote to the author of K3B after it nearly destroyed
> by speakers, and asked if it was possible to configure
> K3B so it would do only its core business and nothing
> else. The simple answer was: No, since it is a KDE app.
>
> --
> FA
>
>


How about disabling kde sounds? Just don't run arts. I've never run it
and never will. Evil, EVIL bing noises. I run kde 3.5.1, with lots of
sexy extras like superkaramba but i've never wanted the damn thing to
make a noise. It never has.

Loki



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