RFC - Removing System Bell KCM

Martin Gräßlin mgraesslin at kde.org
Mon May 12 05:26:56 UTC 2014


On Monday 12 May 2014 00:26:10 David Edmundson wrote:
> What does it do:
>  - calls XChangeKeyboardControl to set the length/pitch or the beep on
> the internal beep of old PCs.
> 
> Who calls uses this bell:
>  - the KCM to configure the bell.. and that's it from within KDE
> 
> No one other KDE app explicitly loads kcmbellrc or calls XBell.
> So we have a KCM for configuring something we don't use from KDE.
> One can still echo -e "\aBeep!" from a konsole, but then they can
> configure it there too.
> 
> I don't think it's something relevant anymore, and I'm not entirely
> convinced this code even works.

I thought it's still used by the accessibility code. If that's not the case: 
go, go, go!

Cheers
Martin
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