Re: git: 225639e7db68 - main - vt: Disable bell by default

> On 21/10/2021 22:52, Warner Losh wrote:
> > This discussion to date has been data free. I created a poll...
> > 
> > https://twitter.com/bsdimp/status/1451274644439265308 
> > <https://twitter.com/bsdimp/status/1451274644439265308>
> I tried to abstain from this discussion on whether the bike shed should have 
> been repainted although I do have an opinion :-)
> 
> Don't have we have anything better than twitter for such a poll?
> Something on FreeBSD infra maybe?
> I recall some polls and surveys in the past and they weren't on twitter.

This is a survey of the overlap of people on the freebsd-commit
mailling list, and Twitter users, not what I would call a very
valid polling of FreeBSD users.

Someone register my "continue to make sound" vote.

Warner, please fix the broken code with respect to pitch,
that is probably WHY people find it overtly annoying.


> 
> Reading some comments on twitter (thankfully I don't need to sign up for that) I 
> see a valid point about feature discoverability.  If it beeps, I know that it 
> can beep.  And if that annoys me, I'll try to research how to disable it.  If it 
> doesn't beep, how would I even know that it can beep?  (Asking for a 15 year old 
> friend).  Maybe I would find the beeping useful and pleasant, but what are my 
> chances of learning that it exists?

Interesting perspective, and I agree.  I am also concerned about loss of
beep function in X11 terminals.

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org