Sound Theme Specification

Marc-Andre Lureau

Lennart Poettering


    
  

Patryk Zawadzki


    
  

Alexander Larsson


    
  

Frans Englich


    
  

Version 0.2


Table of Contents

Overview
Definitions
Directory Layout
File Formats
Context
Sound Lookup
Example
Installing Application Sounds
Implementation Notes
Background
A. Change history

Overview

A sound theme is a set of event sounds that share a common feel, or instrument set. The user can then select the sound theme that they want to use, and all applications use sounds from the theme.

From a programmer perspective a sound theme is just a mapping. Given a set of directories to look for sounds in and a theme name it maps from sound name to a sound filename.