Re: Visual bell

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com> writes:
> * maximum visibility, for low-vision and magnifier users (i.e. anywhere
> you look on the screen you still notice the feedback)
> 
> * better performance/ability (in a minority of cases anyhow) to pinpoint
> the app/window that sent the bell.

Makes sense.
 
> 1) window border flash in Metacity
> 2) some graphical feedback in the cursor locality (via
> gnome-settings-daemon probably).
> 
> the first one suggests that this code should live in Metacity, otherwise
> probably g-s-d makes sense.  Preferences?

window border makes sense to me, if the idea is to associate the bell
with an app. (Unless everyone is using mouse focus)

Havoc