I have found an answer myself. Another notification option is run a program so I entered
cvlc ~soundblaster.wav cvlc is vlc run without the graphical interface. I have another related question. When say dolphin --help is entered into the console all of the option available for running dolphin are show. The --help option works on other things as well. Must admit I was glad to see this feature as it makes bash scripts involving kde nice and easy BUT when I tried phonon --help no help at all. In fact there doesn’t seem to be an application called phonon and my machine doesn't recognise either alsa or gstreamer as a command either. So is there utility that will allow sounds to be played in the same way as cvlc does? The problem with that one is 2 volume controls. I ideally need a method that just uses the main desktop vol control. John - -------------------------------------------- On Wed, 24/7/13, John Woodhouse <a_johnlon...@yahoo.com> wrote: Subject: [kde] KDEPIM3 on KDE 4.10.5 Sound and Icon To: kde@mail.kde.org Date: Wednesday, 24 July, 2013, 20:36 Apart from this aspect all seems to be ok. I had to install kdepim3-devel to get the import facility to pop up, Assume it works but I had transferred the files directly by the time I did that. Couple of points. As I just transferred all of the kde mail directory across I had to edit the kde4 entry to kde3 in the resource file. Initially I thought that the folders had been lost but the view just needed adjusting. The emails didn't show a date until I selected a format for it in settings. Once that had been done even the default setting it was one worked. I had trouble launching it from a the desktop but found that an ordinary link worked along with the terrible looking icon that it produced. A reboot somehow converted this to a normal desktop file along with a nice icon. One problem here is that I can't find anyway to get that icon onto and launch from the quick launch panel. Lastly, any thoughts one how I may be able to get sound notification to work? I have used a soundblaster wav file for years. The general system has no problems playing it. Just Kmail. John - ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.