audio feedback doesn't always use two tones

[Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

First of all, I'm using Ubuntu Jaunty, with gnome-control-center 1:2.26.0-0ubuntu3.

Second, I turned on the "Audio feedback" feature in "Keyboard preferences", namely the "Beep when a toggle key is pressed". This produces two different tones of "beeps", one when the toggle key ends up in the "on" state, another (lower pitched) when the toggle key ends up in the "off" state.

The problem is that the CapsLock key uses the same, high pitched beep for both states, so if you press it by accident you have to look for the keyboard leds to check if the key is on or off. If you press another toggle key (NumLock, for example), it produces the two different tones AND makes the CapsLock key work again as usual with two beep tones and not one.

Looks like the CapsLock key doesn't remember it's state in the audio feedback code until another unrelated toggle key is used :??

What I expected to happen? Hearing a different pitched beep each time I press CapsLock, the high pitched one when the key ends up "on", the low pitched one when the kay ends up "off".

What happened instead? The high pitched beep is always heard no matter toggle state, unless you use another toggle (I've tested with NumLock). From then on, CapsLock also uses two tones.

To reproduce, from a fresh boot (CapsLock off, NumLock off):

- Press CapsLock: you hear the high pitch beep, indicating "on" state.
- Press CapsLock: you hear the high pitch beep again, indicating "on", but the key is now in the "off" position.
- Press CapsLock: you hear the high pitch beep again, this time the key is in the "on" state.

This can be repeated ad nauseam and you always get the high pitch beep.

- Press NumLock: you hear the high pitch beep, the key goes to the "on" state.
- Press NumLock: you hear the LOW pitch beep, the key goes to the "off" state, behaving correctly.

From now on, the CapsLock uses two tones and not one like before!

Raúl

[Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado (dervishd)]

Looks like the problem is not with CapsLock, but with the global state of toggle keys. The low pitch beep only sounds when ALL toggle keys go to "off" state.

Is this the intended behaviour?

Raúl

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado (dervishd)]

Reported upstream http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587592

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for sending the bug to GNOME