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

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 23:39 -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> 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,
>
> What's the compile option? I've added some printf's and I'm sure
> main_play_sound is not being called. But ldd shows:
>
> some_shell$ ldd  `which evolution` | egrep -i "libgnome-2|esd"
>       libgnome-2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgnome-2.so.0 (0x404ae000)
>       libesd.so.0 => /usr/lib/libesd.so.0 (0x412a5000)
>
> I've read the README and INSTALL and cannot find any documenation of
> said compile option. I've also written a small app that calls
> gnome_sound_play and it works, I just need esd running.

*shrug* Evolution plays sound for me. I've never been able to reproduce
the claims to the contrary.

> Also, are there plans on moving away from gnome_sound_play? How about
> using sox's `play`?

`play` doesn't exist on all systems. for instance, my system doesn't
have it.

Jeff