Bug#552158: metacity: system bell rate limited to 1/s

[Piotr Engelking]

Package: metacity
Version: 1:2.28.0-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Forwarded: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593355

Metacity limits the system bell (echo -ne '\a') in the X session it
runs in to only be rung once per second. This limitation was added in
order to prevent problems with multiple visual bells ringing at the
same time. Rate limiting to 1 Hz is, however, a severe overkill. It
makes programs appear unresponsive for one second, which violates the
GNOME Human Interface Guidelines. See the Fedora bug #498608 for
details:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498608

The bug was fixed in Fedora by increasing the maximum rate to once per
0.1 s. See the upstream bug for the patch.

See bug #551590 if the system bell doesn't work at all.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (400, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages metacity depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0                   1.28.0-1   The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                         2.9-25     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                     1.8.8-2    The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcanberra-gtk0              0.18       Gtk+ helper for playing widget eve
ii  libcanberra0                  0.18       a simple abstract interface for pl
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.28.0-1   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.22.2-2   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.18.2-1   The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii  libgtop2-7                    2.28.0-1   gtop system monitoring library (sh
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.5-1  X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libmetacity-private0          1:2.28.0-1 library for the Metacity window ma
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.26.0-1   Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                        2:1.1.1-1  X11 Session Management library
ii  libstartup-notification0      0.10-1     library for program launch feedbac
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.2.2-1  X11 client-side library
ii  libxcomposite1                1:0.4.0-4  X11 Composite extension library
ii  libxcursor1                   1:1.1.9-1  X cursor management library
ii  libxdamage1                   1:1.1.1-4  X11 damaged region extension libra
ii  libxext6                      2:1.0.4-1  X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3                    1:4.0.3-2  X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxinerama1                  2:1.0.3-2  X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxrandr2                    2:1.3.0-2  X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1                   1:0.9.4-2  X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  metacity-common               1:2.28.0-1 shared files for the Metacity wind
ii  zenity                        2.28.0-1   Display graphical dialog boxes fro

Versions of packages metacity recommends:
ii  gnome-session [x-session-mana 2.26.2-1   The GNOME Session Manager

Versions of packages metacity suggests:
ii  gnome-control-center          1:2.26.0-1 utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  gnome-themes                  2.28.0-1   official themes for the GNOME desk
pn  xdg-user-dirs                 <none>     (no description available)

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