The annoying beeping is fixed in karmic somewhat - it now plays the much softer Gnome alert bell through the sound system (rather than the internal speaker) instead.
Still, we need to address that we may be using that too much (like hitting backspace) -- Overuse of system beep without volume control https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/77010 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs