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[Conor Curran <conor.curran@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi David,

As you know I have been working with the design team to refresh the 
sound theme. We have chosen the sound designer and are in the final 
stages of delivering a new system ready sound into Ubuntu in time for 
feature freeze. We had no intention for this cycle to resurrect or 
replace the desktop-ready jingle.
Primarily we are just focused for this cycle on the sound to be played 
when lightdm is ready. Synchronization in my opinion is crucial here.

We can follow this up on IRC.

Conor



On 10/02/12 11:21, David Henningsson wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Hopefully I'm sending this to the relevant people, let me know 
> otherwise (or just forward to those).
>
> I'm trying to track down the lack of startup sounds in 11.10 and 12.04.
> I've written a summary in 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/927459/comments/4
>
> I'll give you some more technical details here:
>
> 1) There is no system-ready sound (the drums). This is because lightdm 
> never triggers one, like gdm does. In detail:
> gnome-session-canberra provides 
> /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow/libcanberra-ready-sound.desktop, 
> with contains a call to "canberra-gtk-play". Using libcanberra is the 
> recommended way to play event sounds. I was talking a bit to Conor 
> about synchronising the sound with something visual happening, and my 
> suggestion is: just try calling canberra-gtk-play. Should this be too 
> slow (since PulseAudio starts/autospawns) at that point, one could 
> consider autospawning PulseAudio earlier. You can autospawn pulseaudio 
> by e g calling "pactl stat".
>
> 2) There is no session-login sound (the longer notes jungle like 
> sound). This is because it is disabled, by this [1] patch in 
> libcanberra, by Jeremy Bicha. There seems to be no reference to any 
> discussion about it, just a statement saying "Disable the login sound 
> by default, since it seems to be more disruptive than helpful 
> especially with faster boots".
>
> Both of these missing sounds cause problems for blind users, as voiced 
> on an internal Canonical mailinglist (warthogs) recently.
>
> In essence; my point is to get a decision that reviving these sounds 
> is what we actually want, and if so, get the people who are 
> responsible to actually make that happen.