Bug 57434

Summary: "User Goes Online" sound played incredibly loud at startup
Product: [Applications] kopete Reporter: ieure
Component: generalAssignee: Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 0.6.1a   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description ieure 2003-04-19 00:48:21 UTC 
Version:           0.6.1a (using KDE 3.1.1)
Compiler:          gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.20-phaktory

When I launch Kopete, a "User Goes Online" event is generated for every online user in my Roster nearly simultaneously. This results in 5 or more sounds being played at the same time, resulting in an /extremely/ loud cacophony when I start Jabber - N times the (reasonable) regular volume for that sound, where N is equal to the number of people on my Roster who are online when I connect.

Possible solutions:

* Allow only N events of the same type to play at the same time
* Have a "Logged in" or "Authenticated" sound which plays when connecting to an IM service, and don't generate a "user online" sound for N seconds after connect.
* Don't trigger a sound for an event unless it happened at least N seconds ago.
Comment 1 Olivier Goffart 2003-04-19 09:17:12 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55932 ***