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[michael perigard <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wishlist? No, I think we've lost sight of what issue this bug refers to.
I'm not terribly sure it's been assigned to the correct packages,
either.

In multiple applications, in both metacity and compiz, the computer acts
as old computers did when you had no sound card; there are no nifty wav
(mp3, ogg, whatever) sounds played, the computer only plays a beep. I'm
not sure where the problem lies. We've had confirmation that this
happens in transmission, firefox, gnome-terminal and in the GTK+ demo
application as well. No one (that I've seen) has confirmed this bug in
KDE or any other desktop environment (xfce, openbox etc) than gnome. I
find it hard to believe that this is an identical bug in metacity /and/
compiz- it seems more like a setting or library both of them draw upon,
like pulseaudio or alsa or the audio system somehow- maybe something
gnome related. Regardless (it may be a bug in both compiz and metacity
for all I know) this is certainly not a wishlist it is a bug, and a
reproducible one at that. A file is set as the default alert sound in
the gnome control center sound panel, yet that sound doesn't play, and
neither does the selected shutdown sound. I'm not sure why this was
changed to a wishlist item.

I'm going to give appropriate parties from compiz and metacity (who
should be subscribed to this bug) a few days to correctly triage this
bug before I set it to confirmed in both compiz and metacity, with
importance low (since I'm not one to define priority for other
developers). From what I understand of bug triaging, wishlist is for
adding non-critical features, not for categorizing when a program fails
to act as advertised.

For those looking to turn down the volume of or disable the beep
altogether, browse the comments of the duplicates of this bug - that has
been addressed elsewhere. You can usually find a mixer slider for your
speaker sounds and turn that down or mute it completely. The fact that
the beep is too loud by default is a completely different bug which has
been filed elsewhere, please excuse me for not remembering exactly where
or finding it for you right now. I'm just hoping this bug report gets in
front of the right people, which I don't think it has yet.

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Use proper sound event instead of system beep
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301174
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