System::Beep() removal (2nd)

[Caolán McNamara]

On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 01:31 +0100, Thomas Arnhold wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> some time ago we removed all ancient beeps in the source (fdo#48549).

Which was a good thing for the general case IMO.

> It seems this was kind of too forward, because users want a beep as 
> acoustic feedback for Basic macros (fdo#58807).
> 
> I want to get some opinions about bringing the vcl/sound related stuff 
> back so we get beeps working for Basic again. Or are there 
> alternatives?!

Can't think of an alternative except cheezy visual-bell things like
flashing the screen or printing the word "beep" on stdout :-)

Maybe we should indeed restore just the bare beep for the sole purpose
of the macro case.

C.