[FFE] Bring back setting for visual system bell

Bug #491821 reported by Guy Van Sanden
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
Mackenzie Morgan

Bug Description

Binary package hint: pulseaudio

The option Visual Bell in Gnome-audio disappeared in Karmic (and Jaunty I believe) when it moved to Pulseaudio.

I use this a lot to keep track of terminal programs.

ProblemType: Bug
AplayDevices:
 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 2/2
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
   Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: guy 2718 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf6fdc000 irq 21'
   Mixer name : 'IDT 92HD71B7X'
   Components : 'HDA:111d76b2,10280250,00100302'
   Controls : 28
   Simple ctrls : 18
CheckboxSubmission: 1ae7a1f14f02ba41dc1cc8734f40a3bc
CheckboxSystem: faa41606b77ca9613dad823b5abbd8a8
Date: Thu Dec 3 12:02:29 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: pulseaudio 1:0.9.19-0ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_DK.UTF-8
 LC_CTYPE=C
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic x86_64

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Guy Van Sanden (gvs) wrote :
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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote : Re: [Bug 491821] Re: Visual Bell option disapeared in Karmic/Gnome

Please move this to libgnome. This has nothing to do with pulseaudio.

Guy Van Sanden (gvs)
affects: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) → libgnome (Ubuntu)
Changed in libgnome (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m)
tags: added: a11y
removed: amd64
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Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m) wrote : Re: Visual Bell option disapeared in Karmic/Gnome

Since visual bells are particularly necessary to hard of hearing and deaf users, I'm adding this to the Accessibility preferences.

affects: libgnome (Ubuntu) → gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
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Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m) wrote :
summary: - Visual Bell option disapeared in Karmic/Gnome
+ [FFE] Bring back setting for visual system bell
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Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m) wrote :

Debdiff attached.

I'm requesting a Feature Freeze Exception for the benefit of improving Ubuntu's accessibility to users with hearing impairments.

The package builds in pbuilder and installed without issue on my Maverick VM. I tested it by both watching the value of /apps/metacity/general/visual_bell change as I toggled the checkbox in the System -> Preferences -> Accessibility window and hitting backspace repeatedly in a gnome-terminal while the setting is enabled. The visual bell activated as expected.

The patch is almost exactly the same as a similar patch in debian/patches/ already (#100), except with different names for the widgets and different gconf keys.

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → New
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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

Acceptable wrt the freeze; FFe granted.

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center - 1:2.30.1-1ubuntu3

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gnome-control-center (1:2.30.1-1ubuntu3) maverick; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/113_at_properties_add_visual_bell.patch
    - Add checkbox to enable visual system bell (LP: #491821)
 -- Mackenzie Morgan <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:31:34 -0400

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Could you send that change to bugzilla.gnome.org?

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m) wrote : Re: [Bug 491821] Re: [FFE] Bring back setting for visual system bell

Yes

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