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Offline questions2000

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GUI Sounds - Add new settings category for GUI based action sounds
« on: May 07, 2025, 09:25:30 PM »
I suddenly realized I have many ideas about this GUI based sounds topic, so I figured I would share them. 
I apologize because I decided to combine all of these into this one post because these are all related to the same topic and they are based on each other.

Not sure what they should be called but for now in this post I will be referring to them as "Action Sounds".
Currently Rockbox offers two sound effects (CLICK & BEEP), I find these Actions Sounds provided to be very helpful.

OVERVIEW
I am suggesting to expand upon these Action Sounds by adding a new settings section for them.
This new sound section will include
-The two Action Sound settings currently offered in RB
-List of specific Actions Sounds that can be toggled on/off.
-Maybe will offer ability to be able to choose between different stock sounds (CLICK / BEEP / maybe others) for each specific action

I will post the suggestions in reply below.
Thank you to anyone who reads all of this, hopefully some of this was worth typing.
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Offline questions2000

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Re: GUI Sounds - Add new settings category for GUI based action sounds
« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2025, 09:29:15 PM »
CURRENT GUI BASED SOUND SETTINGS
Currently there are two settings for Action Sounds which can be found in
"Settings - General Settings - System - Keyclick"
-Headphone Keyclick (GUI based sounds CLICK & BEEP)
-Speaker Keyclick (Hardware based click)

Headphone Keyclick
Suggesting that the "Headphone Keyclick" setting be removed from the "System" category and moved to new sound setting based section I am suggestioning for in this post.

Speaker Keyclick
Developers would have to decide, could keep "Speaker Keyclick" in "System" category because it is more hardware based (based on if device has a built in speaker) or it could be moved to new sound settings section as well.


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NEW SECTION FOR ACTION SOUNDS
First place to start would be creating a new section for these Action Sound settings in
"Settings - General Settings - Action Sounds"
The category name would have to be decided upon by developers, as mentioned just going to use "Action Sounds" for clarity in this post, but could just be "Sounds"
Could put this setting section somewhere near "Display" and "System" in menu list
-Display
-Sounds  or  Action Sounds
-System


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SUBCATEGORIES LIST
This new category would include the following Subcategories
-"Headphone Keyclick" setting
-"Speaker Keyclick" setting (if developer decides to move from "System" section)
-Sound Toggles (see list below)


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"SOUND TOGGLES" - INFORMATION ABOUT THIS SECTION
-This category would include Action Sounds that could be toggled on/off.
Each item would just have one setting ON/OFF.

-Would be more complicated, but if developer wanted to add this, this could also be a place to add another setting for each Action item, to allow user to choose between different sound effects (CLICK / BEEP / maybe others?) used for each action specifically.


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"SOUND TOGGLES" - LIST OF ACTIONS
Here is a list of "actions" that may be helpful to include on/off toggles for.
If not too many items, could be presented as just one list. 
(Just for clarity I will divide into sections for this post)
I also will mention suggestion for sound effect used (CLICK or BEEP) if it is not decided to add the setting I mentioned in the above section.

- = RB already provides this action sound
* = suggesting to add action sound for this item

GENERAL SOUNDS
*Startup = BEEP (https://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,55330.0.html)
*Shutdown = BEEP (https://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,55330.0.html)

MENU ACTION SOUNDS
-Navigate Up / Down = CLICK
*Next (Forward) / Previous (Back) = CLICK (probably) (https://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,55330.0.html)
-Select = CLICK
-Cursor is at top/bottom of list = BEEP
-Cursor cycle from top down to bottom / bottom back up to top (if this setting is "on") = BEEP
-Hold down = CLICK

WPS SOUNDS
*Fast Forward / Rewind = LIGHT CLICK  (https://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,55330.0.html)


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If there are any other actions desired, users please let me know and I can add them to this list.

Thank You
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