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bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead |
Date: |
Fri, 30 Apr 2021 11:03:51 +0300 |
> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 07:27:25 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
> cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, alan@idiocy.org, 1305@debbugs.gnu.org, mwd@md5i.com,
> stefan@marxist.se, jasonspiro4@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
> larsi@gnus.org
>
> "Flashing a window means changing the appearance of its caption bar as if
> the window were changing from inactive to active status, or vice versa.
> [...] Typically, a window is flashed to inform the user that the window
> requires attention but that it does not currently have the keyboard
> focus." [1]
>
> [1]
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-flashwindow
>
> But even that doesn't describe the effect accurately, the feeling I have
> is closer to "the frame briefly vibrates". As I said, I use Windows only
> rarely, so my feeling is perhaps not right.
What I see is exactly what the MS documentation describes: the frame's
title bar blinks (a.k.a. "flickers"), which is very hard to notice;
and the corresponding tab on the task bar flashes, which is much more
prominent. IME, this happens in all Windows versions.
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, (continued)
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Stefan Kangas, 2021/04/29
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Dmitry Gutov, 2021/04/29
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Gregory Heytings, 2021/04/30
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Gregory Heytings, 2021/04/30
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/04/30
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Gregory Heytings, 2021/04/30
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/04/30
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Gregory Heytings, 2021/04/30
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Gregory Heytings, 2021/04/30
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Dmitry Gutov, 2021/04/21
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Stefan Monnier, 2021/04/21
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Gregory Heytings, 2021/04/21
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Stefan Monnier, 2021/04/21
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Gregory Heytings, 2021/04/21
- bug#1305: [External] : bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Drew Adams, 2021/04/21
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Dmitry Gutov, 2021/04/21
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Gregory Heytings, 2021/04/21
- bug#1305: All code that currently beeps should use visual bell instead, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/04/21