Quoting Emmanuel Vadot <m...@bidouilliste.com> (from Fri, 22 Oct 2021
22:55:40 +0200):
I honestly thought that this setting was something that you setup once
when you installed a new machine (which doesn't happens very often) and
forget about it, you know another "ah crap yes I forgot about this, why
do we have such insane default. Oh well now that I disabled it locally
I don't have to think about it and won't change the default". Instead
this time I didn't say to myself that I won't change it and I did.
May I offer another perspective into this? Something outside of 0 and 1...
I wonder if it is really the default of bell=on is what is crap, or if
the bug Warner found is what makes it crap, or if the frequency of the
current setting is what makes it crap (or the two last items together).
Personally I dislike the bell, but not as much that I want to disable
it. I don't mind to have it disabled (I simply enabled it directly in
sysctl.conf even as I haven't updated to past the commit), as I think
it gives usefull feedback. It may not give useful feedback in all
cases where it goes off, but that's something we have influence on,
don't we?
What I don't like about the bell is the noise it makes. So what about
changing the noise it makes to something more pleasant and asking if
this is better and maybe acceptable to those which don't like the bell?
I also think that disabling a feature you know it exists but you don't
like is much more easy than to enable a feature you don't know exists.
Basically I question in this email the problem you want to solve by
disabling the bell. Does it really need to be disabled, or would a
change of the sound and volume make it acceptable for you (you = all
people which complain or agree to "the current one is crap -> disable
it" .... which basically means we would need to make some kind of
usability test what sounds better before deciding if it shall be
disabled or not)?
For me the issue with the bell would be solved if it sounds "better"
and is less loud. I assume we could even make it configurable to some
extend (override a hardcoded frequency and volume with a sysctl).
Bye,
Alexander.
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