system beep can't be changed to screen flash in Jaunty due to missing sound preferences

[Kazagistar]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

In previous releases, I was able to replace the system beep with a screen flash, and I know many people who did this as well, because otherwise using Ubuntu on a laptop in class or during speeches is a nightmare. It is good to be alerted, but sound is often a bad method.

This functionality used to be under "System -> Preferences -> Sound", but in my Jaunty Alpha 4 install, this is no longer available. The volume control applet does not contain equivalent functionality, and thus this should be considered a regression.

[C. Cooke (ccooke)]

Hi, thanks for the bug report.

Nice and easy to confirm, too.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

 gnome-control-center (1:2.25.3-0ubuntu4) jaunty; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/patches/96_build_sound_capplet.patch:
     - upstream stopped building this capplet in favor of the new gnome-media one
       but jaunty will still use the intrepid variants (lp: #327069)
   * debian/patches/99_autoreconf.patch:
     - updated