Re: [Evolution] Speaking of bugs ... (new mail sound)

[Chuck Mattsen <mattsen arvig net>]

On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 09:16 -0700, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 08:52 -0500, Chuck Mattsen wrote:
> > Since the upgrade from 1.4.x to 1.5.7-x (now 1.5.7-2mdk), my new mail
> > sound no longer works.  System sound otherwise seems fully functional,
> > but no longer announces new mail in Evolution.  I've checked the
> > settings in the GUI and they seem okay.
> Right there is your problem.  I was using a CVS build of evolution 1.5
> with Mandrake cooker (pre-gnome-2.6) and it always played the
> notification sound (too often - like when moving mails from folder to
> folder).  Since Cooker updated to GNOME 2.6, I've lost my notification.
> The sound daemon starts up, but no mail notification.
>
> I posted a question on the Mandrake Cooker mailing list, but have not
> seen a response.

Errrm ... well, it //may// be related to a recent update to Gnome, I
suppose, but it //was// working with Evo 1.4.6 under Gnome 2.6 on this
cooker box, and the new mail notification only stopped after updating to
Evo 1.5.7 ... though the timing //could// have been coincidence, I
suppose <shrug>.

FWIW, I never experienced any problems with excessive sound
notifications as you did (e.g., when moving messages, etc.).

-- 
Chuck Mattsen / mattsen arvig net / RLU #346519 
Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-4mdk 
13:34:17 up 1:28, 0 users, load average: 0.02, 0.08, 0.13 

One minute of shut mouth worth one hour of explanation ...