Comment 40 for bug 996801
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(In reply to comment #8)
> I am concerned about emitting a tone at 4 seconds with activation at 8 seconds,
> for the simple reason that users might erroneously think 4 seconds was enough
> to activate.
A tone would be completely useless for me, unless that's a "visual tone" (the speakers are off most of the time). But if it has to be something visual, it should be something informative.
> But as there are (far) fewer users who need this compared to the
> general population, this would be a relatively easier education task. BUT...
> shifting this to the desktop environment's responsibility for UI notification
> is probably the better way to go; a beep is more easily missed (in both
> directions) than a dialog box appearing that explains what is going on.
Yes, exactly. But the information should be available even if one doesn't use a desktop environment (just a window manager), or you should shift the entire feature to the desktop environment.