Ticking sound during sessions.

[gnome-pomodoro]

Ticking sound during sessions.

[kamilprusko]

Hi @sesm, for now same "bell" sound can be played when pomodoro ends with Away From Desk toggled on. It should be customizable once we move settings to GTK+ dialog. Having single notification sound I think is a better default - I've tried using both notification sounds but that made me jumpy :-)

If you're asking for the "tic-tac" ticking sound, I don't think it's reasonable to have it on a computer, on a phone or tablet - maybe. You can try it with Tomighty, to me after a while it feels like a torture, but if it really has benefits please list them here.

[sesm]

Thanks for quick response!
There are no obvious benefits for using "tic-tac" sound, but for certain kind of people in certain environment it is a better choice.
For example, if someone works in an office, silence is impossible. So there are 2 options: music or some monotonous sound. And some people find music too distracting and they focus better with "tic-tac" sound.
Regarding Tomighty, for some reason on my machine it fails to show any graphics after launching.
I was using http://www.focusboosterapp.com when I worked on Windows, but now I have to search for an alternative. And for now, online version of Focus Booster is the only thing that works on this machine and plays sound during sessions.

[sesm]

By the way, I found out, that some backgorund noise (like presented here: http://www.coffitivity.com/) helps one focus even better, then ticking sound.

[kamilprusko]

Great idea! :)

Good thing that http://www.coffitivity.com/ uses HTML 5, so that you can download sound file easily if you wish ;) ...too bad they have a very restrictive license so we can't bundle it.

However, a quick search gave me a few contenders:

• Large Hall Ambiance
• Choc Dee Thai Restaurant
• Airport Café

[kamilprusko]

It has been added in 0.9.0 release.