Bug 5136

Summary:	Make the installer emit sound when done
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Romain d'Alverny <rdalverny>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia tools maintainers <mageiatools>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Low	CC:	thierry.vignaud
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	USABILITY
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	drakx-installer-stage2	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Romain d'Alverny 2012-03-27 17:46:37 CEST

The installation process takes some time to complete, from a few minutes to a few hours, depending on several factors (power, disk IO, network IO). A large amount of it does not require human attention, being automatic.

 * some may unnecessarily stay next to the computer, waiting for the installation to complete;
 * others may switch to something else, forget about the installation, and realize several hours later that it paused, waiting for some action from them.

In both situations, valuable time is lost.

Installer could ring a bell * when it is done or requires user input. That way, a person installing the system:
 - can quietly do something else than... staring,
 - will be notified in an unobstructive way when the program asks for her input (end of install or intermediary step).


* perl -e 'print "\a";' would do for a start, but of course, if audio interface is available, a better specific sound would be welcome.

Manuel Hiebel 2012-03-29 14:48:05 CEST

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Source RPM: (none) => drakx-installer-stage2

Comment 1 Thierry Vignaud 2012-04-20 10:53:08 CEST

We don't include sound drivers in installer.
Doing so would blot the installer (+15% on boot.iso).

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2012-05-26 13:03:42 CEST

Hi,

This bug was filed against cauldron, but we do not have cauldron at the moment.

Please report whether this bug is still valid for Mageia 2.

Thanks :)

Cheers,
marja

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 3 Romain d'Alverny 2012-05-26 17:38:39 CEST

Irrelephant for Mageia 2.

Manuel Hiebel 2012-05-26 17:39:45 CEST

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)

Comment 4 Romain d'Alverny 2012-07-27 17:59:35 CEST

(In reply to comment #1)
> We don't include sound drivers in installer.
> Doing so would blot the installer (+15% on boot.iso).

So what about just a 'print "\a";' for such an event?

Thierry Vignaud 2016-06-17 12:42:35 CEST

Keywords: (none) => USABILITY

Samuel Verschelde 2016-10-12 14:10:58 CEST

Assignee: bugsquad => mageiatools
Target Milestone: Mageia 3 => ---

Samuel Verschelde 2016-10-12 14:11:32 CEST

Summary: Installer sound clues => Make the installer emit sound when done