Re: [orca-list] Gnome 3.4 and Desktop Sounds

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi Dave,

I don't think so. For one thing I use to be able to define sound
themes, and in deed Ubuntu ships with a Ubuntu sound theme. All the
sounds are there from Gnome 2.x, but none of them play. The only way I
could get the login music/drumbs to play is by forcing it to play on
startup. Otherwise it wouldn't play at all. Interesting thing is I
looked at Ubuntu 11.10 and enabling the sound themes works. I'm
wondering if this is a problem with Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, or if
perhaps this was a design decision. If its a bug I'd be happy to file
a report on Launchpad, but if its a design decision, something
intentional, then there isn't much use in filing a bug report.


Cheers!


On 6/5/12, Dave Hunt <ka1cey gmail com> wrote:
> I don't know that anything's been 'yanked', per-se, just that the
> default Gnome 3 is shipping with a minimal theme.  If one were to put
> sound files, with the right names, in the right directory, then visit
> the Sound Effects thing, would they show up as they used to do?
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> -Dave
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> On 06/05/2012 10:13 AM, Thomas Ward wrote:
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > Yeah, I saw that. Unfortunately, I want to do more than just change
> > the alert sound. I use to be able to assign sounds for various things
> > such as login, logout, clicked, question, and things like that. Now,
> > it looks like someone at Gnome just decided to yank the sound themes
> > out for some unknown reason. In my opinion it really detracts from the
> > end user experience because the other leading operating systems Mac
> > and Windows have system sounds so why not Linux?
> >
> > On 6/5/12, Dave Hunt<ka1cey gmail com>  wrote:
> > > I don't know how you set the sound theme anymore.  When I go to the
> > > sound settings page in Gnome Control Center, I can choose an alert
> > > sound, where my choices seem to be:
> > >
> > > default;
> > > bark;
> > > drip; glass;
> > > sonar.
> > >
> > > I suppose one can still install sound themes, but where to get them and
> > > how to set them up in the gui?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -Dave
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