Sound notification is useful, it tells me when I have new mail or an im. This is more useful with growl- but I digress. Now where this starts to become less useful is when many programs use the same nondescript sounds, and when there’s more than one set of speakers which are linked to something demanding my attention. I first look for a growl notification- then to a bouncing dock icon- then I check exposé for a window with a major change then to the desktop behind to look for the inevitable dialouge window. A window which in fairness is perfectly suited to exposé but regretfully left out.
Also, my mac just went “swoosh”. It’s not Adium- that’s a chord. It’s not Mail- wrong “swoosh”. It’s not one of a million things, and I have no idea what program is reporting success or failure. None whatsoever.
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