[TxMt] TextMate and Transmit

[Chris Messina]

Seems like the smart thing to do would be to support Growl in this case 
and provide notifications on save and successful upload.

I agree with Allan -- overloading a sound like the error beep is 
*really* a bad idea, especially when you're reporting success!

Chris

Allan Odgaard wrote:

> On Mar 6, 2005, at 19:34, Fred B. wrote:
>
>> In Transmit, if you check "beep when transfer completes" [...] But I 
>> agree that they should provide different notification methods, at 
>> least give us the choice to use different sounds...
>
>
> OMG! Are they using the normal error beep for this? I'd say whether or 
> not they should change it is not even up for discussion.
>
> The authors of Transmit should read about Pavlov's dogs: 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditioning
>
>    The most famous example of conditioning involves the development
>    of conditional salivary responses in Pavlov's dogs. If a tone
>    was reliably sounded before the dogs were fed, the dogs would
>    eventually start salivating when they heard the tone, even if no
>    food was present. The dog's responses (salivation) to the tone
>    are said to be conditional upon the dogs' experience with the
>    pairings of the tone and food. Dogs that have not experienced
>    this condition do not salivate when they hear tones. Pavlov's
>    dogs are therefore said to have been conditioned. Their
>    reactions to the tone have been changed through experience.
>
> The same mechanism exists in humans as well, and if the Transmit guys 
> are indeed using the error tone, or something very similar sounding, 
> they are both triggering a false sense of alarm with the user, and 
> undermining the usefulness of the sound as well.
>
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