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Idea #9183: Play startup sound only after ready

Written by roshan.george the 28 May 08 at 10:48. Category: Look and Feel. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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After you log in through GDM, the startup sound usually plays before anything else starts, so sometimes you hear the sound even though the desktop is not yet ready i.e. you're still staring at the brown screen and the panels haven't come up yet.

Changing the time that sound is played to right after everything is ready would be a much more useful thing, it would actually indicate when you can use the computer.

From Squiggle in the comments (a much better idea):

Play a loopable sound (8 bar blues, etc) until loading is done then when things are loaded finish with another sound indicating all is ready to go. This is the sort of thing that games do well.
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Written by roshan.george the 28 May 08 at 10:48.
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glotz wrote on the 28 May 08 at 11:02
Perhaps the current sound is intended to signify a successful login instead?

Wikzo wrote on the 28 May 08 at 13:07
I don't like the sound (have turned it off), but I agree. It should only play when your desktop is ready.

andyrue304 wrote on the 28 May 08 at 15:44
Nice idea, but I think the start up sound is there to distact you while the GUI is loading.

Imagine this: you log in...silence...you see the panels and buttons appear and you want to get on with some work...and then a noise plays that distracts you and puts you off for another 10 secs or so.

Not so good IMO. If this was implemented I would definately turn the sound off.

Perhaps a better idea would be to have the option to play the sound either during loding, after loading or not at all. Best of all worlds..?

Squiggle wrote on the 28 May 08 at 17:49
I'd prefer something even fancier...

Play a loopable sound (8 bar blues, etc) until loading is done then when things are loaded finish with another sound indicating all is ready to go. This is the sort of thing that games do well.

Eldmannen wrote on the 28 May 08 at 20:48
Squiggle,
Thats actually a pretty cool idea. :)

gazilla wrote on the 28 May 08 at 22:32
What would be nice is for the desktop to be ready by the time the login sound finishes. To achieve this at the moment I have changed my login sound to Beethoven's Fifth. ;-)

adrian2 wrote on the 29 May 08 at 07:12
Yeah, and if the system is about to crash, just play Metallica - Fade to Black, it takes just about as much time as it would take a guy with a lot of hope to realize the system is hung up....i'm sorry i had to say that :))

tgape wrote on the 30 May 08 at 21:01
I want to vote for Squiggle's idea...

TWO wrote on the 1 Jun 08 at 07:35
Kubuntu does it and it doesn't always do so consistently. I personally would just leave it as it is, as an indicator of a successful login.

Squiggles idea is brilliant though!

hacktick wrote on the 1 Jun 08 at 16:40
I would keep the actual sound... But it would be cool to have the option for an additional sound when he finished! Shorter, like the "login-ready"-sound.

ebrahim wrote on the 3 Jun 08 at 20:36
A better idea is to use KDM and KDE by default to get rid of these kind of nonsense **idea**s hanging around the Ubuntu idea storm.


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