Not true. PC keyboards don't have bells, but all the world is not
a PC.
In any case, the philosophical argument doesn't really matter -- X
put bells in the keyboard control structures, so the X Keyboard
Extension inherited them.
XKB doesn't get involved in any kind of sound stuff. It just allows
programs that sound the terminal bell to attach a name so that
some other program can intercept the bell and generate appropriate
sounds.
-- Erik
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