Bug#405523: Horrible lame BEEPing scares away all the new users!
Package: readline-common Version: 5.2-1 Severity: grave This is a TERRIBLE mistake! We scare away the new users. By default the shell (bash) and some console programs make beeping sounds in some conditions. You might not realize, but for newbie users this is 1. horrible irritating, when one have a loud PC speaker 2. impossible to fix yet (he just starts to learn debian, linux, console) beep. Huh? BEEP. How do I turn that off? BP Oh my god, lets go back to windoBEEP! quick! Advanced user will turn it back on in seconds. Newbiew will be annoyed for it for days. Remember not everyone is as advanced in Linux as You, and pissing off the new user at first occassion is not good. Smack in the head is NOT a good way to start a date. For example fix this, as Debian Devel suggested: Cyis raf256: appears the set bell-style none is actually in /usr/share/readline/inputrc but commented out Please stop scarring away new users! Thanks. -- Rafał Maj www.Raf256.org C++ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#405523: Horrible lame BEEPing scares away all the new users!
severity 405523 normal kthxbye This one time, at band camp, Rafal Maj said: Package: readline-common Severity: grave You are kidding. By default the shell (bash) and some console programs make beeping sounds in some conditions. I think this should be wishlist at best, but it is certainly not RC. -- - | ,''`.Stephen Gran | | : :' :[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `'Debian user, admin, and developer | |`- http://www.debian.org | - signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#405523: Horrible lame BEEPing scares away all the new users!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Rafal Maj said: Package: readline-common Severity: grave You are kidding. Ok, lets change it to a wish. By default the shell (bash) and some console programs make beeping sounds in some conditions. I think this should be wishlist at best, but it is certainly not RC. Ok. We discussed some options on IRC how to solve it. Quite few people agree the sound is annoying. Yet some others want to keep it the default. One idea was to make the shound quiet in VT (much shorter, low pitch), and to make simmilar changes in xterms. Perhaps more documentation should be added to inform users about how to fix it (like in man bash?) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFnPn9zze79KYWSSMRApufAKCRpYnKMIom3teQJXKXdgeXyiGJ6ACfQDvl MabEjdKoC7qvXT4/5ZrD2MA= =KcOm -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
