Re: Playing a sound in GNOME

["William Jon McCann" <mccann jhu edu>]

Hi,

On 10/31/06, Étienne Bersac <bersace03 laposte net> wrote:

Hi,

I fully agree with you. I must point the GSmartMix project which is
based on gstreamer and allow fine mix between app. If nautilus-cd-burner
was able to simply play a sound at the end to the burn process, it must
do that in a consistent fashion that allow a desktop mixer to
dynamically mix the sound, i.e. if the sound level is different if the
burner has the focus or not, etc.

The incredibly detailed bug report is here:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339638 

It seems to me that the various solutions that have been mentioned so far aren't super.  I would expect to be able to do something like:

gtk_sound_play_stock ("gtk-done");
gtk_sound_play_stock ("gtk-warning");
etc.

I filed http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368304

One advantage of having something in gtk is that message dialogs can have their own sounds (one per GtkMessageType) without the application having to do anything.

And then we'll probably need some guidelines in the HIG so that we don't go overboard.

So, if GStreamer is used for this on unixy systems how do we avoid the problem where shipping certain plugins makes the entire stack GPL incompatible?  And hence: http://doctau.blogspot.com/2006/10/rhythmbox-re-licencing.html
Unless the sounds are played out of process.

Jon