gpm "error click" is uninformative

[Thomas O.]

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

If you pull power out from your laptop, you'll probably hear a click if you have the "use sound to notify on an error" feature enabled.

This click is not very useful as it gives little information. It should be changed to a beep or some kind of informative alert. Further, it sounds like a problem in the laptop... it sounds like a spark jumping or a relay switching (I thought this at first until I asked on the forums.) And yes, while it comes just out of the speakers, and doesn't work during mute, it is hard to locate and got me quite confused.

Also, the dialog should be changed. Removing the AC adapter should not be an error; it is a notification, message or warning (at most).

[Scott Howard (showard314)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Jaunty Jackalope. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/.

I have a thinkpad T21, and I hear system beeps when I unplug the AC adapter. Is the sound made in Karmic better?

 Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Scott Howard (showard314)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 328946, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.