Comment 6 for bug 242713
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| Owen Williams (ywwg) wrote Re: "Use sound to notify in event of an error" is not useful | #6 |
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I'd argue that it's more than not useful, it's extremely annoying and misleading. We have two dell laptops in the house that had this problem. Due to the pc-speaker-like sound of the beeps, and the fact that the volume of the sound is very loud independent of the mixer settings, I thought this was a BIOS bug. I've been googling "dell resume BIOS alarm" for literally months trying to figure out this problem. I only found this bug report by searching for "dell resume loud beep" eventually. (Getting up in the morning and hearing loud beeps from my resuming laptop is a rude awakening.)
I understand the need for a sound-only alarm, and that it can't be language-specific, but it needs to be a little more gentle, more like a mac error sound than the current "angry series of beeps" sound.
It also must correspond to an actual error, as stated. I hear the sound 50% of the time I resume, but only if it resumes successfully. I never hear the sound when resume fails. That's pretty poor. The option should be disabled until it starts correlating with actual failure.