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           Summary: Overuse of loud and irritating system-bell sound in
                    GNOME gnome-terminal and gedit
    Classification: openSUSE
           Product: openSUSE 11.4
           Version: Factory
          Platform: x86-64
        OS/Version: SuSE Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P5 - None
         Component: GNOME
        AssignedTo: bnc-team-gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: badshah400@xxxxxxxxx
         QAContact: qa@xxxxxxx
          Found By: ---
           Blocker: ---


User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13)
Gecko/20101203 SUSE/3.6.13-0.2.1 Firefox/3.6.13

System: GNOME Live-CD build 1050

The system-bell sound (a high pitched squeal) is used far too generously even
on GUI apps, which are expected to have other, much better, mechanism of
providing a warning feedback. Here are my observations from using the GNOME
desktop on 11.4 M6+:-
  1. gnome-terminal - open a terminal in the home directory and enter cd
     and press TAB. The system-bell is heard in all its glory :)
     Workaround: Open "Edit > Profile preferences" and disable terminal-bell
     Note: Though terminal bell is enabled in 11.3, the loud system-bell is
           not heard when used similarly.
  2. Gedit - The text editor also throws a loud beep when you try to use the
     use the keyboard to move the cursor to a non-existent line or column.
     I could figure out no obvious way to disable this.

This sound is loud, irritating and best disabled for the GUI apps, as was the
case with 11.3

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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