Comment 75 for bug 486154

>Is there something I'm missing that makes having the window managers be responsible for the system bell so attractive? And >regardless, should the discussion continue here or in a new bug for "Coherent handling of the system bell"?

I think the latter is important, especially on servers that have audio but no window manager. All too often the response to an intelligently set system-bell is "I hate the system bell! How do I turn it off?!?!?" That isn't the point. There are people (myself included) who need a non-obnoxious system-bell to notify them of activity outside their focus.

Does pcspkr only play one waveform? I had more control of my Apple ]['s speaker than I do pcspkr.