Re: [Evolution] Mail arrival sound

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

It used to be in mail/main.c and I thought that Ettore had moved all the
init calls into shell/main.c.

Oh well.

Jeff

On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 22:31 -0700, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
> OK - based on Jeff's email - I was spurred to action (even though my
> background is in running development environments - not developing
> itself).
>
> I did some reading in /usr/include/libgnome-2.0/libgnome/gnome-sound.h
> and then did some debugging.
>
> pocket-> cat a.c
> #include <libgnome/gnome-sound.h>
>
> main()
> {
>         char *filename = "/storage/SOUNDS/notify.wav";
>         gnome_sound_play (filename);
> }
>
> -> gcc -I /usr/include/libgnome-2.0 -I /usr/include/glib-2.0 \
>     -I /usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -l gnome-2 a.c
> -> ./a.out
>
> Result: no sound
>
> pocket-> cat a.c
> #include <libgnome/gnome-sound.h>
>
> main()
> {
>         char *filename = "/storage/SOUNDS/notify.wav";
>         gnome_sound_init("localhost");
>         gnome_sound_play (filename);
> }
>
> -> gcc -I /usr/include/libgnome-2.0 -I /usr/include/glib-2.0 \
>     -I /usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -l gnome-2 a.c
> -> ./a.out
>
> Result: sound
>
> The only call to gnome_sound_init that I see in the evolution source is
> one in calendar/gui/alarm-notify/notify-main.c - nothing in mail.  So, I
> added a call to gnome_sound_init in mail/mail-folder-cache.c right
> before the call to gnome_sound_play.  Amazing enough, now I get mail
> notifications.  Not only that, I get gnome system notifications when I
> click around in the menus - which never occurred before.  So, basically,
> gnome_sound_init should be called when evolution starts - if it's called
> in mail-folder-cache.c then no other sound works until the first mail
> arrived.
>
> TTFN,
> Lonnie Borntreger
>
>
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