Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le jeudi 05 février 2009 à 21:25 +1100, George Kirkham a écrit :
1) Could you also please explain to me how gnome produces its "System
Sounds". That is, what packages/libraries does gnome use to play "System
Sounds" ? Knowing this would help me to better understand gnome's sound
and I would be more able to report useful information.
That would be libgnome, through the gnome_sound_* functions. It uses
libesd for playback.
I know that replacing libesd0 with libesd-alsa0 will get gnome's System Sounds
to work, so I think that there is a bug which is stopping them from working
with libesd.
2) Can you confirm whether your able to verify this issue, that for a
standard desktop installation with gnome-audio installed and enable,
that Debian Lenny does not make sounds for "System Sounds" ?
If you really want to work on system sounds, I welcome you to work on
GNOME 2.24 in experimental, for which there is a whole new framework to
play system sounds, that integrates with all GTK+ applications. If
you’re interested, you should package a freedesktop-compatible sound
theme (if you find one that doesn’t suck), and check that enabling
system sounds in the control center does work, with and without
pulseaudio. We’d then make the necessary modifications so that enabling
system sounds can be easy.
I really would like to have Debian working for System Sounds for
everyone out there who are linux experts (like me).
Your suggestion of work on GNOME 2.24 in experimental sound interesting,
however at this time I don't have enough time to allocate to such a
project. Finding time to report a few bugs is using up most of my spare
time. I thank you and all the other people who work hard to make Debian
the great operating system and collection of applications that it is.
Are you able to reproduce the issue that I have reported (that is, do
you have a PC that you can install nothing but a Debian Lenny standard
desktop and install gnome-sound and enable gnome's "System Sounds". It
would be nice to know that others also have this problem.
Thanks, George.
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