Please also consider users who are wearing headphones...I'm on a laptop and the system beep is painfully loud over headphones, and despite removing it with sudo rmmod pcspkr, it returns when I boot. I'm told adding "rmmod pcspkr" to /etc/rc.local will remove it completely, but this is the kind of thing that Ubuntu should get right out-of-the-box. If I was a new user and didn't love Ubuntu already, this deafening beep over headphones would make me switch back to whatever OS I was using previously in a heartbeat. Let those who want it go to the console to enable it rather than putting off new users by having to figure out how to disable it.
See also https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/77010 -- gnome-sound-properties: No easy way to control volume of system sounds https://launchpad.net/bugs/45577 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
