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

[George Kirkham]

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.