On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 15:04, Walter Wittel
<wittelw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
An alternative to a mute button might be to sample the ambient sound level using the mic (should work for most laptops, less so for desktops, but they likely have volume set for location already) and adjust volume appropriately.
haaah yeah ambient intelligence ;)
these guys had that name, but went for "fluid interfaces" after a while.
A startup sound should be an audible notification that the system is now loaded and ready to be used. Any sound that doesn't convey this information would be a nuisance and of course we would then need to have ambient intelligence, mute buttons in the login screen and so on and so forth..
The only way i see to really tackle this is to offer a silent boot in grub, for those who don't like to hear the startup sound, and to design a semantically useful startup sound in the first place, so hearing the start sound can finally make sense for the first time, no matter what taste in music you have.