On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 11:22:25 +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > In my opinion, not every application should deal on its own with "alerting" > the user, because a standard solution already exists: The X Windows beep. > Not only does it not require modifying every little application, and it is > completely standard in the X-using world (not specific to "Linux", "KDE", > "Fedora", or anything of that sort), it even works when you run remote > applications, like good old X was supposed to support.
Just to emphasize Nadav's point, VNC which does NOT transfer sound, do perform the "beep" (make a bell sound) on the viewer side. I suggest that if you do catch this event, you should ADD to it, not replace it (unless it irritate you and that's your reason to catch it). Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ GnuPG: 98EA398D <http://www.keyserver.net/> Better Safe Than Sorry --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
