On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 01:10:20PM -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>
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>
> FYI,
>
> I just read the wonderful history of this feature request.
>
> http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=437
>
> From that thread, it seems Jeff Stedfast was the one who added this support.
>
> It seems it depends on libgnome. Well Debian has tons of libgnome libs.
> And I have installed 29 of them. Just which one has gnome_sound_play --
> I am not sure yet. I'll play with enabling esd now, see if that kicks it off.
Enabling esd didn't do anything. Help. And to recap: what are the requirements to get
evolution mail announcement working? I'm not sure yet but I believe
gnome_sound_play (filename); is being used to play wav files for mail
arrival. I am not sure which gnome lib this comes from, or if there are
extra dependencies.
Luis
>
> On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 12:40:26PM -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > [ Please CC me as I'm not subscribed to the list ]
> >
> > I enabled the
> >
> > Tools --> Settings -->
> > Mail Preferences
> > --> New Mail Notification
> > --> Play sound file when new mail arrives
> >
> > I set the filename to a wave file I have, using the full path. I am not
> > hearing any sound. Sound card works, Volume is pumped.
> >
> > I've done some quick grep'ing on the source and I guess the function
> > being used to play the sound file is:
> >
> > mail/mail-session.c
> >
> > static void
> > main_play_sound (CamelFilterDriver *driver, const char *filename, gpointer
> > user_data)
> > {
> > if (filename && *filename)
> > gnome_sound_play (filename);
> > else
> > gdk_beep ();
> >
> > g_free (filename);
> > camel_object_unref (session);
> > }
> >
> > Q1. I'm using debian so not sure if there was library left out of
> > the package's depenencies. I'll look but anyone know off what library
> > gnome_sound_play comes from? If a library was left out I'll report it as
> > a bug.
> >
> > Q2. From some initial googl'ing I'm reading esd must be running in order
> > for gnome_sound_play to work; is this right (?)
> >
> > I'll keep looking for more info. Please let me know if you know exactly
> > what needs to be available to get this sound play to work on mail
> > arrival.
> >
> > --
> > GnuPG Key fingerprint = 113F B290 C6D2 0251 4D84 A34A 6ADD 4937 E20A 525E
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>
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