any interest in a fedora branded sound theme

[kendell clark]

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hi all
I've been thinking about this for a couple of weeks. Is there any
interest in a fedora branded freedesktop compliant sound theme,
possibly to go on the workstation image? I'd be glad to either take on
this task myself or help produce one. I'm reasonably knowledgeable in
the freedesktop sound spec so can make a pretty complete sound theme
if anyone is interested. Do the fedora packaging guidelines apply to
system sounds as well EG, no proprietary sounds from windows and/or mac?

Thanks for reading
Kendell clark
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[Elad Alfassa]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 2:32 AM, kendell clark <coffeekingms(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
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>  hi all
>  I've been thinking about this for a couple of weeks. Is there any
>  interest in a fedora branded freedesktop compliant sound theme,
>  possibly to go on the workstation image? I'd be glad to either take on
>  this task myself or help produce one. I'm reasonably knowledgeable in
>  the freedesktop sound spec so can make a pretty complete sound theme
>  if anyone is interested. Do the fedora packaging guidelines apply to
>  system sounds as well EG, no proprietary sounds from windows and/or mac?
>
>  Thanks for reading
>  Kendell clark 

Hi,
I don't think a Fedora-specific sound theme is the way to go, but I do
think the default freedesktop sound theme could use some improvement.

In the past I've tried to improve the theme and created a couple of
new sounds, and sent them upstream [1].
Unfortunately it seems no one from upstream ever saw them. (after a
while I created my own fork of that theme [2] with my changed / added
sounds,
which is what I use now).

I think it'd be great if we could improve the upstream theme, because
this is the Fedora way: If we can make something better,
then it should be upstream for everyone to benefit.

Regarding guidelines, you obviously can't use sounds from Microsoft or
Apple, as they are copyrighted and proprietary. Using them would be a
copyright violation and thus illegal in most jurisdictions, and
against Fedora's policies.
For the list of acceptable content licenses, see Licensing:Main in the
Fedora wiki [3].

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56979
[2] https://github.com/elad661/sound-theme-hedgehog/
[3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#Content_Licenses
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-Elad Alfassa.

[Joe Wulf]

Kendell,
I think it would be a fantastic addition to an ever-growing evolution of fedora growth,
fame and fortune.You go for it!
-Joe
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hi all
I've been thinking about this for a couple of weeks. Is there any
interest in a fedora branded freedesktop compliant sound theme,
possibly to go on the workstation image? I'd be glad to either take on
this task myself or help produce one. I'm reasonably knowledgeable in
the freedesktop sound spec so can make a pretty complete sound theme
if anyone is interested. Do the fedora packaging guidelines apply to
system sounds as well EG, no proprietary sounds from windows and/or mac?

Thanks for reading
Kendell clark

[Matthias Clasen]

On Fri, 2015-03-27 at 18:32 -0500, kendell clark wrote:
>  hi all
>  I've been thinking about this for a couple of weeks. Is there any
>  interest in a fedora branded freedesktop compliant sound theme,
>  possibly to go on the workstation image? I'd be glad to either take 
>  on
>  this task myself or help produce one. I'm reasonably knowledgeable in
>  the freedesktop sound spec so can make a pretty complete sound theme
>  if anyone is interested. Do the fedora packaging guidelines apply to
>  system sounds as well EG, no proprietary sounds from windows and/or 
>  mac?
>  
>  Thanks for reading
>  Kendell clark
>  Sent from Fedora GNU/Linux
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Hi Kendell, 

I agree with Elad that improving the freedesktop sound theme would be 
better than starting a fedora 'branded' one. I'm not sure if I a 
'complete' sound theme would really be an improvement. But I could see 
room for a special-purpose theme here, with the goal of being explicit 
rather than subtle. 'HighContrast' for the ears, if you want.

[Leslie S Satenstein]

Hi MatthiasI like the idea, but for me, there is only one problem.Since Kernel 3.18
(beginning 3.19) sound for the front speaker jack is broken. I have raised a bugzilla
report, but there is little action. 

But sound works with kernel 18 (and SUSE13.2). That won't help me as my preferred
distribution is Fedora.
 Regards 
 Leslie
 Mr. Leslie Satenstein
Montréal Québec, Canada


 
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On Fri, 2015-03-27 at 18:32 -0500, kendell clark wrote:
>  hi all
>  I've been thinking about this for a couple of weeks. Is there any
>  interest in a fedora branded freedesktop compliant sound theme,
>  possibly to go on the workstation image? I'd be glad to either take 
>  on
>  this task myself or help produce one. I'm reasonably knowledgeable in
>  the freedesktop sound spec so can make a pretty complete sound theme
>  if anyone is interested. Do the fedora packaging guidelines apply to
>  system sounds as well EG, no proprietary sounds from windows and/or 
>  mac?
>  
>  Thanks for reading
>  Kendell clark
>  Sent from Fedora GNU/Linux
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Hi Kendell, 

I agree with Elad that improving the freedesktop sound theme would be 
better than starting a fedora 'branded' one. I'm not sure if I a 
'complete' sound theme would really be an improvement. But I could see 
room for a special-purpose theme here, with the goal of being explicit 
rather than subtle. 'HighContrast' for the ears, if you want.
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