[PATCH] Adjustments to behavior of bell-vibrate feature

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Reasonable people will probably disagree on this patch, but I'm going to throw 
it out there for 
opinions.

1) The feedback-vibration used for the trackball and pgup/pgdn keys (30 ms) is 
way too short 
for a notification buzz. This patch splits out the two durations, and defaults 
the buzz-on-bell to 
150 ms. (I personally like it at 500, but I think that will be an uncommon 
preference. :-)

2) It seems to me that most of the point of the buzz-on-bell, whose purpose is 
to get my 
attention, is lost if it only works in the foreground! The patch removes the 
test for 
foregroundness, and has the buzz activate any time a bell is seen. This does 
not change the 
behavior of the notification option, just the vibration.

I probably shouldn't have put these in the same patch; I think (1) should 
definitely go in, and (2) 
may get argued over. If in doubt, it's easy to remove (2) -- it's a very short 
patch.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by gwillen@gmail.com on 21 Oct 2009 at 7:01

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It doesn't seem particularly good to vibrate even when you're in the background.
Can't you just set notifications to vibrate when they pop up in the 
notifications tray?

Original comment by kenny@the-b.org on 25 Oct 2009 at 4:59

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I would also like connectbot to buzz/vibrate when in the background, I hate 
having to keep checking the notification bar to see if my finch session has 
received a new message. 

Original comment by drew.kirkpatrick on 23 Jun 2010 at 1:13