172541 - Change "Custom wav file" to "Custom sound file" in MailNews prefs

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 266192

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Greg K.]

Presuming Mozilla can play sound formats other than wav, Mozilla shouldn't refer
specifically to a single proprietary sound format in it's new-mail-sound prefs.
Instead of "Custom wav file", we should use "Custom sound file".

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

Attachment: Patch

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

seth, would this be in your area? reassign if needed.

Comment 3

[jglick]

I believe we can only handle .wav files at the moment?
Hence why that wording was picked.

Comment 4

[Alex Bishop]

> I believe we can only handle .wav files at the moment?
> Hence why that wording was picked.

Currently it says "wav" not ".wav" file.

If the wording is going to be changes, could the capitalisation be sorted out 
at the same time?

"System New Mail Sound" isn't consistent with "Custom wav file".

Comment 5

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

The Mac nsISound implementation can actually play any sound format that
Quicktime handles (e.g. aiff, wav, mp3 etc). Yes, you could set this sound file
to be a 5-minute MP3  ;)

Comment 6

[Greg K.]

Looks like my original patch correctly; it replaces the whole DTD file. I'll try
to make another.

Should this be a Mac-only change, or can Mozilla handle multiple non-WAV formats
on all platforms?

Comment 7

[Mike Calmus]

*** Bug 271485 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Ian Neal]

I'll add this into the next patch for bug 266192 so marking as a dupe

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 266192 ***

Comment 9

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

verified dup