Re: Visual bell

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:

> > 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)

I'm a little lost here about how we are going to decide what window
border to flash when an app calls gdk_beep() ... we could always
flash the focused window, but that would be confusing if some other
app/window is actually the one beeping...

Regards,
                                        Owen