GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 685259
sounds should not depend on event sounds being enabled
Last modified: 2012-10-06 18:09:04 UTC
neither stopwatch nor alarms are 'events' in that sense, and they should make noise even if event sounds are turned off.
Is it possible to play sounds through canberra avoiding the global enable/disable settings?
Seems so. Something like canberra-gtk-play -i bell --property media.role=alarm --property canberra.volume=0 works for me, regardless of wether event sounds are turned off or not. The important bit here is to set media.role to something other than 'event'.
Thanks for the suggestion. Fixed in http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-clocks/commit/?id=f618737a096f738084f9c027a2a382cabe67d3e8