On 15 Jun 2005, at 23:03, Brad Taylor wrote:
More importantly, what if the user is deaf or does not have speakers
plugged in? Replacing *real* functionality with sounds is never a
good
idea.
Very true, although GNOME does at least have a 'visual bell' feature
that many deaf users are likely to have turned on.
(It's also just occurred to me that it might be useful if the visual
bell had a 'turn on when the volume is muted' option, although that
certainly wouldn't help if you'd just unplugged your speakers for a
while.)
Cheeri,
Calum.
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