225671 - RFE: Option to use system bell for alarm

Status: NEW

(Calendar :: Alarms, enhancement)

Description

[Gyles Harvey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031112
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031112


I'd like to be able to use the system bell in place of / as well as playing a
sound when an alarm sounds. In an office environment I have my audio out
permanently connected to headphones, so won't get an audible alert if I'm not
listening to headphones. On this system the system bell remains audible in these
circumstances.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[David J. Lynch]

Attachment: Mock up of proposed fix.

Comment 2

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

Comment on attachment 139402 [details]
Mock up of proposed fix.

This image was attached to the wrong bug

Comment 3

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

Sane enhancement request - Confirming

Suggest low priority.

Comment 4

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

Reassigning all automatically assigned bugs from Mostafa to nobody@m.o

Bugspam filter: TorontoMostafaMove

Comment 6

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

Setting calendar.alarms.soundURL to an empty value calls nsISound's beep(). I'm not sure if this is actually the system beep, because I cannot get my mac to beep at all (i.e in the terminal with echo -e "\a")

Could someone not on mac try this in the error console?

Components.classes["@mozilla.org/sound;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsISound).beep();

Comment 7

[Richard Marti (:Paenglab)]

On Windows this works, on Ubuntu not. Ubuntu is in a VM but other sounds are working.