Bug 123473 - remove the Beep feature
Summary: remove the Beep feature
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: kmail
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Reported: 2006-03-12 11:20 UTC by Stefan Monov
Modified: 2009-12-25 18:49 UTC (History)
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Description Stefan Monov 2006-03-12 11:20:59 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.1)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

The option to beep on new mail is unnecessary. Please remove it.
Comment 1 Philip Rodrigues 2006-03-12 15:33:38 UTC 
Why?
Comment 2 Stefan Monov 2006-03-12 15:38:31 UTC 
Because nowadays the PC speaker has no good purpose except in situations in which decent soundcard output is impossible. knotify is enough.
Comment 3 Philip Rodrigues 2006-03-12 17:13:59 UTC 
So what you really mean is that the beep feature should be changed to use knotify and not the PC speaker?
Comment 4 Stefan Monov 2006-03-12 17:30:02 UTC 
No.
Currently there are two ways of notification in KMail - Beep and knotify's. What I'm saying is that the Beep should be ditched.

Since it seems that I don't express my thoughts correctly, please see the "New Mail Notification" groupbox in the "Accounts" section in KMail's main configuration dialog.
- The feature that I call "beep" is toggled by the "beep" checkbox there.
- The feature that I call "knotify's" is configured by clicking the "Other Actions" there.
Comment 5 Philip Rodrigues 2006-03-13 20:01:30 UTC 
I assume the "beep" checkbox is there as a quick access to the "most commonly used" notification action, but I'll leave it to the developers to comment.
Comment 6 Stefan Monov 2006-03-13 21:27:18 UTC 
I observe that "beep" just produces a short sound via the small PC speaker that's in the PC case. knotify doesn't even have this as an option, so I think that "beep" does not correspond to "most commonly used" notification action.
Comment 7 Björn Ruberg 2009-12-25 18:49:28 UTC 
Don't see why an optional feature shall be removed