Re: sound capplet patch for visual bell

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com> writes:

> Hi Jonathan;
> 
> Got bogged down today.  Plugging away at this however, it's next in the
> pipeline (but I hafta go for a couple hours now).
> 
> Plan, based on what you and Jody have said in response to Calum's and my
> original capplet: make this a new notebook page in sound capplet, called
> "system bell".  (Migrate the Keyboard->Sounds featurelet into this
> sounds page too; it's overlapping functionality).

Sounds good.  I think we're going to put Dr. Wright's preferences in the
second tab instead.

> this doesn't include the "anti-patch" to take this out of
> keyboard->sounds yet, since I think we need to consider how much of the
> existing UI to migrate and whether to preserve the existing string gconf
> key for "bell_mode".  I don't mind either way, but until we have a clear
> answer I think we should use the existing (functional but redundant)
> audio-bell key.

We have time to get this right.  I don't really consider any of the
keyboard stuff a 'feature' per se (that's already in Metacity).

Thanks,
-Jonathan