Comment 4 for bug 1283142

Laney, Seb, I agree... I think there's something fundamentally different from alerting on a phone and on the desktop.

The snap + audio is to let you know something's going on when your phone is in your pocket or on your bedside table... but on the desktop, where you're already looking at the screen, the sound is annoying and the popup dialog is unnecessary.

Until design gives more direction on this, I'm going to have datetime use bubble notifications w/o sound when it sees notify-osd is the notification server.