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

[Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 11:59:00PM EST, Thomas Ward wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if someone here could answer a quick question for me.
> Back in Gnome 2.x I use to be able to assign sound effects  to various
> actions like button click, login, logout, error message, question, etc
> just like you can in Microsoft Windows. However, since switching to
> Gnome 3.x I have not been able to find where to assign desktop sounds
> to system actions.

In short, the infrastructure to do this is still there, but the UI isn't. GNOME follows the FreeDesktop sound 
theme specification to implement sound events, and libcanberra does the heavy lifting, with extensions for 
GTK etc.

To get the sound effects you want, you need to build a sound theme pack according to the spec, and place the 
theme pack in /usr/share/sounds. You then have to tweak a gsettings key (which one I don't currently 
remember) to set the sound theme to the one you want.

I don't have time to dig for links, but google for freedesktop sound theme specification, and you should be 
on your way to creating a theme to suit your needs.

Luke