Re: PlayingSound

[Robert Slover]

On Sep 1, 2012, at 19:17, Ivan Vučica <ivucica@gmail.com> wrote:

> Now onwards. It may indeed be interesting to patch gnustep-gui to play a 
> sound through NSSound, and SystemPreferences.app to allow selection of the 
> sound. Just to check in case I feel like doing it: 
> 
> Maintainers of -gui! Is there a reason why that isn't done this way already? 
> I'd use NSSound and NSUserDefaults, and fall back to NSBeep in case +[NSSound 
> soundNamed:] returns nil. (And, naturally, cache the return value.)

How about also providing a user default to select whether the system alert uses 
the system beep or plays a sound? At work, I nearly always have my sound turned 
off, so that I don't have to listen to any of the annoying sounds any of the 
web apps use for every little mouse action, but have my X server configured to 
use the system beep for bells so that I still hear meaningful alerts from 
Emacs. I would like to be able to make the same choice with GNUStep apps.

--Robert