I repeat, lets get KDEvibes into 3.3 ;-)

[Stefan Westerfeld]

   Hi!

On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 02:20:04PM +0200, Stefan Westerfeld wrote:
> On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 11:31:14AM +0200, Scott Wheeler wrote:
> > > Unfortunately, I can't reach any person responsible for incorporating the 
> > > new sounds/jingles of my KDEvibes project into KDE 3.3.
> > > 
> > > The tasks are:
> > > 1. Remove old .wav sounds
> > > 2. Add the new .ogg sounds
> > > 3. Modify the default configuration in KControlCentre (KNotify module) to 
> > > play new sounds instead of old ones.
> > > 
> > > Is there anybody who can help me with these? Unfortunately, I cannot get the 
> > > KDE cvs version to prepare a new config for KControlCentre myself, but I can 
> > > guide anyone to assign proper sounds.
> > 
> > I talked to Artemio on IRC and will commit the "East West" sounds pending:
> > 
> > *) Sounds in .wav format and dithered to a lower resolution (22 kHz, 16-bit 
> > mono like the current ones).  We need .wav since aRts by itself -- without 
> > mpeglib from kdemultimedia -- can't do a reasonably job decoding vorbis 
> > audio.  We need lower resolution because otherwise the files are larger than 
> > the rest of kdebase.  ;-)
> 
> I'll have a look this weekend whether I can fix the gsl ogg decoder - I
> think its a bad idea to convert lots of samples and ship them in bad quality
> if the only thing that needs to be fixed is a piece of code in aRts.

I committed a fix - so please don't convert the samples. If there are
remaining issues which occur when using Arts::GSLPlayObject for system
sounds, let me know.

   Cu... Stefan
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