Bug#514216: gnome-desktop-environment: lenny - "System Sounds" do not give sound, MP3 and CD do give sound

[Josselin Mouette]

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.

> 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.

Cheers,
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