I'm going to design and build an X terminal

[Scott Stevens]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:38:52 -0700 (PDT)
"Eric Smith" <eric at brouhaha.com> wrote:

> Michael wrote:
> > No.  Audio does not belong in X
> 
> I think you're going to find a lot of people disagree with that.
> X is supposed to provide network transparency for the user interface,
> and audio is part of the user interface.
> 
> It may well be the case that audio doesn't conveniently fit into the
> X protocol, but that's due to short-sightedness, not because it
> doesn't conceptually belong there.
> 
> If the user interface included smell (intentionally), that should be
> handled by X as well.
> 

Well, what about the fact that *my* user interface sometimes includes
the whine and rattle of the fixed disk (helps you know if a data-I/O
intensive program is actually live, or if something has siezed up). 
Does that mean that X needs to include hard drive noise?