[Gaim-devel] Gaim Sounds - First Draft

[Steven G. <ste...@si...>]

Since asking about the state of the sounds in Gaim last week, I've got 
looking for some help in improving them.

I turned to Brad of BradSucks.net pseudo-fame. Brad is a musician who 
does his own recording on his PC - so he's got all of the gadgets and 
software to make the whizzes, buzzes, and dings we could want.

He's kindly agreed to try to help out. He's been sending me experimental 
sounds for the last few days and we agree that the following two show 
the most promise:

http://actsofvolition.com/include/sounds/gaim_receive.wav
http://actsofvolition.com/include/sounds/gaim_send.wav

I'd like to see these as default New Message / Send Message sounds. I 
like that they are soft, short, and have a "question" and "answer" feel 
to them. I think these are sounds that I could hear a hundred times a 
day without getting sick of them.

Already, I can't go back to the old brrriiinnnggg sounds - they sound 
*really* rough in comparison - which is a good sign.

We drew some inspiration from the plug-in/un-plug USB device sounds in 
Windows XP:

http://actsofvolition.com/include/sounds/xp_hardware_insert.wav
http://actsofvolition.com/include/sounds/xp_hardware_remove.wav

Alternatively, these sounds could also work well as 
user-comes-online/user-goes-offline and/or user-joins-chat/user-leaves-chat.

I'd like to hear some feedback, particularly from the key developers - 
what do people think? Depending on the feedback to these sounds, we 
could continue to work on the other key sounds.

Extra thanks to Brad (BradSucks.net) for the help.

Thanks,
Steven Garrity