sound

[Pietro Acquisto]

Bjorn.Gustafsson "at" delaval.com talked about the need for sound on
VNC. I would like to throw my five pennies worth in:

I think it would be very beneficial to have sound-signals
available on clients - I don't know about Linux and other
systems, but on Windows you have a whole lot of sounds to signal
various states of the application or the system.

For making use of such signals IMHO it would be not necessary to
kill network-bandwidth with streaming sound. I think for most
purposes it would be just enough to have a mapping for
state-signals on the server-system to sounds on the client. So
if VNC-server triggers a sound-signal, all the client would need
to do is to play the mapped sound locally.

The mapping could take place by some optional automatic
configuration-service, which even might download and convert the
respective sound-files from the VNC-server by means of an
configuration-run (e.g. on first logon to the server, and
updates on later logons). Alternatively the mapping could be
done manually by the client-user - in Windows you could just use
the control-panel Applet for System-sounds (after VNC-client
entered the appropriate Sound-hooks to be mapped).

- Pietro
acq "at" acq.co.at
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