Hello desktop team. We, at the Fedora sound SIG [1] are creating sound themes [2] for fedora. As we were investigating how to create a sound theme, Lennart pointed out that GNOME's sound configuration UI does not allow switching themes, only switching alert sounds. Now that's a crappy UX! Users will search sound themes with gnome-packagekit, and install them. But how would they know how to enable it? Most users doesn't know what gsettings is, and we can't put it in the README file because most users are not aware of /usr/share/docs. I would expect GNOME's sound configuration UI to allow selecting a sound theme, and: * The UI should have a button for searching for sound themes automatically in pacakgekit. * The UI should allow changing the gdm user sound theme (so that sounds like system-ready will be used from the user installed theme and not the freedesktop theme). It should be rather easy to implement, and will improve UX in installing and using a sound theme. I guess it's too late to add it to Fedora 15 (I hope I'm wrong, and there is still time), and if it is, a secondary temporary UI should be created for switching sound themes, and packaged for Fedora 14 and Fedora 15. This is a really ugly workaround, so it should be only temporary, until the required change is done in upstream GNOME. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Sound [2] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/music/2011-April/000791.html -- -Elad. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
