RFC - Removing System Bell KCM

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 09:28:08 Hans Chen wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 4:11 AM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Monday 12 May 2014, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > > 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!
> 
> yes, good point,should be checked if is used in any ways for accessibility
> reasons.
> i have no objections otherwise, but accessibility is important (controls for
> it may even be stuffed in the accessibility kcm if that's the case)
> 
> Yes, there's an option in the Accessibility KCM ("Use system bell" under
> Bell tab). I've always found it confusing how there are two ways to enable
> system bell.
> 
> Also, for what it's worth there are people who like the system bell, see
> e.g. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177861. I used to belong to this
> group since I found the system bell more responsive in Konsole, but since
> then I've grown accustomed to a silent terminal.
> If no KDE applications use this feature, I say +1 for removing the KCM (or
> maybe stuff it all in the Accessibility KCM?).

Putting it under the accessibility KCM seems the best solution to me, for now. 
I'd also not have a problem to move it somewhere where it's not in our default 
install. It's not *that* essential. ;)
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sebas

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