22 Apr
2005
22 Apr
'05
7:11 p.m.
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:38:52 -0700 (PDT)
"Eric Smith" <eric at brouhaha.com> wrote:
Michael wrote:
Well, what about the fact that *my* user interface sometimes includes
the whine and rattle of the fixed disk (helps you know if a data-I/O
intensive program is actually live, or if something has siezed up).
Does that mean that X needs to include hard drive noise?
No. Audio does not belong in X
I think you're going to find a lot of people disagree with that.
X is supposed to provide network transparency for the user interface,
and audio is part of the user interface.
It may well be the case that audio doesn't conveniently fit into the
X protocol, but that's due to short-sightedness, not because it
doesn't conceptually belong there.
If the user interface included smell (intentionally), that should be
handled by X as well.