KDE4 Applications Crash Beautifully

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KDE4 Applications Crash Beautifully

Post by allix » Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:55 am

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The funniest thing ive seen in a long time, would be awesome if it were to happen in KDE 4
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Post by Wally Balljacker » Wed Jun 06, 2007 8:21 am

Um, what's the point?
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Post by Vogateer » Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:17 pm

I think it's funny, myself. You usually get that KDE window-smashing sound when something crashes, now there's actually a visual effect to go along with the sound. I'm impressed with how well the effect has been done, too.
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Post by Tsuroerusu » Wed Jun 06, 2007 10:09 pm

Vogateer wrote:I think it's funny, myself. You usually get that KDE window-smashing sound when something crashes, now there's actually a visual effect to go along with the sound. I'm impressed with how well the effect has been done, too.
The above is just a mock-up ;)
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Post by Vogateer » Wed Jun 06, 2007 10:13 pm

Yeah, I should have guessed that, given the early stages of composite in kwin. Wasn't thinking…
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Post by snarkout » Thu Jun 07, 2007 12:22 pm

Whoever invented that breaking-glass sound needs a hot needle in the eye. It's not only a shitty sound to hear, but it's entirely inappropriate to scare the fsck out of users just because an app crashed. I think the term "anti-human" applies well to that sound.
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Post by Wally Balljacker » Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:41 pm

Snarkout wrote:Whoever invented that breaking-glass sound needs a hot needle in the eye. It's not only a shitty sound to hear, but it's entirely inappropriate to scare the fsck out of users just because an app crashed. I think the term "anti-human" applies well to that sound.
lol, I agree. It's not exactly pleasent. When I first started using KDE a few years ago, that used to scare the crap out of me when I had my headphones cranked up. Thankfully GNOME has no such "feature".
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Post by harriseldon » Thu Jun 07, 2007 3:41 pm

When I was in college, I worked at the computer lab and remember the old Macs crashing. They had a car crash sound complete with screeching brakes to accompany any system crash. That and the silly little bomb.
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Post by adam » Fri Jun 08, 2007 7:05 am

harriseldon wrote:When I was in college, I worked at the computer lab and remember the old Macs crashing. They had a car crash sound complete with screeching brakes to accompany any system crash. That and the silly little bomb.
Oh yeah right. Mac apps don't crash. :lol:
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Post by TankCatNinjaFish » Fri Jun 15, 2007 9:50 pm

Snarkout wrote:Whoever invented that breaking-glass sound needs a hot needle in the eye. It's not only a shitty sound to hear, but it's entirely inappropriate to scare the fsck out of users just because an app crashed. I think the term "anti-human" applies well to that sound.
I remember this hilarious virus on windows years back that made it look like the screen itself was getting fractures.
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