GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 78015
No change could be noticed in the volume when a key is pressed.
Last modified: 2009-08-15 18:40:50 UTC
Reproducibility: Always Version : 1.99.6 Tested on Linux as well as Solaris 2.9 64 bit platforms. The problem is present in both the places. Procedure: 1. Start up Gnome control center. Double click on the option 'Preferences: Keyboard' to open the Keyboard preferences dialog window. 2. Go to the 'Sound' tab. Enable the option 'Keypress makes sound' and change the volume to quiet, medium and loud. Everytime after changing the volume press a key on the key board. No change is noticed in the volume of keypress sound everytime after the volume is changed.
Updating all cc bugs that have the GNOME2 keyword set to the GNOME2.0 milestone, to help jrb triage/prioritize cc bugs. Filter on 'luis doing GNOME2 work' to ignore this spam.
Rachel, if you don't object, I'm going to assign this to jacob, since he's got a solaris box and I presume you don't :)
Sorry for the spam; missed Sander's comment about feeling this was not 2.0.0.
I fear this problem may lie with the XServer. I was sort of hoping that it would work on Sun equipment, at least. Can you use xset -q to confirm that the right xsetting is being set, at least.
Created attachment 8519 [details] [review] patch to fix utter brokenness in keyboard properties
clicking should be fixed by the fix to bug #78016 aside from two issues: 1. doesn't seem to work on linux (i believe it never did) 2. on solaris, the volume doesn't seem to do anything - it's either on or off depending on where the slider is. to fix 1, how can we tell if it works or not? to fix 2, should the slider be removed (like the bell)? or should it be resolved as duplicate of bug #78016?
xset -q auto repeat: on KEY CLICK PERCENT: ### LED mask: 000000 I can't get it to make any noise either but the value does change.
we could have a label warning the user that it may not work depending on the system they are using... or we could just remove keyclick... ;)
bill, is keyboard click needed for a11y? i'd like to remove it as it doesn't work very well, and doesn't actually seem useful.
after discussing it with bill, he said he wanted the feature to still exist, but didn't want to move it to the a11y capplet. i believe he ok'd removing it from the UI but leaving the functionality in g-s-d and in the gconf keys (please correct me if i'm wrong). soon-to-be attached patch would do that - waiting for 2.0.x branching stuff to resolve before comitting.
Created attachment 8979 [details] [review] hide keyclick slider
just mailed release team asking for commit approval
Adding myself to the cc list. If/when the patch goes in, somebody (me?) needs to check the docs to make sure they match.
fixed in CVS: 2002-06-10 jacob berkman <jacob@ximian.com> * gnome-keyboard-properties.glade: hide the keyclick slider. fixes #78015 reviewed/approved by jrb, luis, jody
In the beta 2 build, the option does not exist any more. Hence closing the bug.