Bug#548939: gnome-terminal: feature request: sound an alarm when a terminal's output is updated

[Tyler MacDonald]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.26.2-2
Severity: wishlist


Often, I have a long-running task running in a terminal (such as an apt
update), that is going to run for a long time, then prompt me with a
question, then run for awile, then ask me more questions, etc...

It would be really nice if I could leave the room while this is happening,
without risking my computer sitting idle for awhile because the prompt
appeared.

I'm thinking a setting where you can specify a list of patterns (regular
expressions) and audio files to play when the pattern is seen in the
terminal output. Maybe by default, have the alarms disable themselves once
they are seen, but give the user an option to also have an alarm be
persistent and play every time a pattern is seen.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gnome-terminal-data           2.26.2-2   Data files for the GNOME terminal 
ii  libatk1.0-0                   1.26.0-1   The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                         2.9-25     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.82-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.26.2-3   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.20.4-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.16.5-1   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.5-1  X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.24.5-1   Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                        2:1.1.0-2  X11 Session Management library
ii  libstartup-notification0      0.10-1     library for program launch feedbac
ii  libvte9                       1:0.20.5-1 Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.2.2-1  X11 client-side library

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  gvfs                          1.2.3-3    userspace virtual filesystem - ser
ii  yelp                          2.26.0-2   Help browser for GNOME

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information