Hello Sam, Sorry for joining this mailing list thread late. At the moment we still do have the default start up sound, although it might not be obvious at the first sight.
When one boots Ubuntu Desktop installation CD, one hears the distinct short drums beat. It indicates that the installer has been fully booted. It must be an audio signal, for people with visual impairment. After this sound is played, one can use a keyboard shortcut to activate screen reader for complete text-to-speech based navigation. Similarly the same sound is played on boot, when lightdm screen is present to allow similar text-to-speech activation before login in a multi-user system setup. The sound is called "system-ready.ogg" which at the moment is a symlink (copy) of "dialog-question.gg" xdg-open /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/syste-ready.ogg There are also other "sound theme" music for other actions. Some of them are quite melodic. But there is a lot of opportunity around sounds in ubuntu, e.g. in that directory we also have tones for: * phone outgoing calling / busy * phone incomming calling And etc. I was not aware of the 12.04 competition, but it would be amazing to update at least the "system-ready" music for 14.04 and of course provide nicer sounds for the ubuntu touch/phone story. General guidelines for default artistic works in ubuntu probably apply, e.g. licensing work under Creative Commons ShareAlike 3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ ) just like for the wallpaper competitions. ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Documentation/Backgrounds#Constraints ) Regards, Dmitrijs Ledkovs, part of the Ubuntu Installer Team. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
