Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!rpi.edu!rodney From: rodney@dali.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: talk, beeps (was Re: (none)) Message-ID: Date: 13 Dec 89 20:50:57 GMT References: <8912131434.AA19336@crdgw1.ge.com> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Image Processing Lab, Troy NY Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: bob@MorningStar.Com's message of 13 Dec 89 19:29:40 GMT >>>>> On 13 Dec 89 19:29:40 GMT, bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) said: Bob> I generally keep my console window iconified and often fail to Bob> notice when someone wants to talk to me. There are already too Bob> many applications that beep at me besides "talk". Bob> Hmmm, perhaps we need an X protocol extension for stereo workstation Bob> speakers? Or for quadrophonic, so we could locate the beep in the Bob> plane of the window? Or maybe DTMF (i.e. Touch-Tone(tm)) encodings, Bob> controllable from the resource database? Yeah, all the sparc-station 1's can make sounds and play digitized things. I think an X extension for the larger type (stereo, high bandwidth, etc. neat. -- Rodney