[kronolith] Administratively disable download of sound notifications

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Anthony Messina <amessina at messinet.com>:

> On Friday, June 20, 2014 09:48:18 AM Jan Schneider wrote:
>> Zitat von Anthony Messina <amessina at messinet.com>:
>> > Is there a way to disable the download of the notification sound
>> > files at the administrative level, or even the user level?  I have my
>>
>> No.
>>
>> > Kronolith notification preferences set to "Inline, Email, No Sound",
>> > but every time I click in Kronolith (dynamic interface), requests
>> > for the sound files are issued creating unecessary connections and
>> > downloads:
>> >
>> >
>> > "GET /horde/kronolith/ HTTP/1.1" 200 23910
>> > "GET /horde/themes/default/sounds/doorbell.wav HTTP/1.1" 200 5168
>> > "GET /horde/themes/default/sounds/jetsndb.wav HTTP/1.1" 200 31256
>> > "GET /horde/themes/default/sounds/gnid3.wav HTTP/1.1" 200 13688
>> > "GET /horde/themes/default/sounds/reminder.wav HTTP/1.1" 200 23151
>> > "GET /horde/themes/default/sounds/theetone.wav HTTP/1.1" 200 24776
>> > "GET /horde/themes/default/sounds/doorbell.wav HTTP/1.1" 200 5168
>> > "GET /horde/themes/default/sounds/jetsndb.wav HTTP/1.1" 200 31256
>> > "GET /horde/themes/default/sounds/reminder.wav HTTP/1.1" 200 23151
>> > "GET /horde/themes/default/sounds/gnid3.wav HTTP/1.1" 200 13688
>> > "GET /horde/themes/default/sounds/theetone.wav HTTP/1.1" 200 24776
>> >
>> >
>> > I did a fair amount of work in Kronolith yesterday and found that
>> > over 16MB total for the day had been transferred just for these
>> > sound files (which I thought I disabled with "No Sound").
>>
>> Those should only be loaded when opening the event form and selecting
>> inline notifications. At least that's what FF does.
>
> Thanks, Jan.  This is what I see with FF.  Though I would expect that even
> using inline notification, since I have set "No Sound", the files  
> would not be
> requested.
>
> Also do you think it would be reasonable to have these sound files requested
> using something like "If-Modified-Since" HTTP header, to improve client-side
> caching of these files that are not likely to change?

All this is completely up to the plugin implementing the audio playing  
in your client system.

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Jan Schneider
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