Re: [Evolution] Re: [Evolution 1.4.6] Play sound file when mail arrives not working

[mcgrof ruslug rutgers edu (Luis R. Rodriguez)]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 03:56:17PM -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 15:51 -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 01:10:20PM -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > > [ I've CC'd Debian's evolution mantainer in the CC list.
> > >   Also, CC me in replies as I'm not sub'd to the list ]
> > >
> > > FYI,
> > >
> > > I just read the wonderful history of this feature request.
> > >
> > > http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=437
> > >
> > > From that thread, it seems Jeff Stedfast was the one who added this support.
> > >
> > > It seems it depends on libgnome. Well Debian has tons of libgnome libs.
> > > And I have installed 29 of them. Just which one has gnome_sound_play -- 
> > > I am not sure yet. I'll play with enabling esd now, see if that kicks it off.
> >
> > Enabling esd didn't do anything. Help. And to recap: what are the requirements to get
> > evolution mail announcement working? I'm not sure yet but I believe 
> > gnome_sound_play (filename); is being used to play wav files for mail
> > arrival. I am not sure which gnome lib this comes from, or if there are
> > extra dependencies.
>
> it comes in libgnome-2.so and is a compile-time option to support that
> feature. so if libgnome is built without esd support, then you won't be
> able to get it to work.
>
> Jeff

Thanks for the reply Jeff. I've done some testing and I noticed that esd
*needs* to be running. I wrote a simple gnome-sound hello world
app (with gtk_beep just as in evolution) to test this and confirmed it.
I also noticed that gnome_sound_init must be called before
gnome_sound_play can work. I checked the 1.4.6 source and found only 
one entry where that is called:

calendar/gui/alarm-notify/notify-main.c:189:    gnome_sound_init ("localhost");

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