The patch looks sane to me (and I've mentioned as much on the upstream bug), but as you've noted it will need some system-integration work to avoid regressions for the people who want their bell to ding rather than PC bleep.
To that end, I brought this up with Luke Yelavich (the main Ubuntu audio guy, TheMuso in #ubuntu-desktop): ... <TheMuso> RAOF: As for audio this cycle, well I am not entirely sure. I think rodrigo_ is helping out some, and I am spending a little time on bits and pieces here and there, usually package updates, but thats about as far as I know. <TheMuso> RAOF: IMO PC speaker stuff is disabled and should stay that way, and libcanberra is responsible for sound events. <RAOF> So the correct way to proceed would be to teach libcanberra to optionally use the PC speaker, and teach compiz to use libcanberra? <TheMuso> I'd say thats probably the best bet. ... It would seem to be fairly easy to patch libcanberra to do this, and probably similarly easy to patch compiz to use libcanberra. Luke (TheMuso on Ubuntu IRC, https://launchpad.net/~themuso has email addresses) would be the person to talk to about this design. -- System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486154 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to metacity in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
