Not yet implemented, I'm waiting for a good API for sound in GNOME applications, as I understand libgnome stuff should be replaced so I'm not sure which API should be used for that right now...

Personnally, in specto I simply did this:

sound = "foo.wav"
gnome.sound_play(sound)

Wouldn't that work?

In my opinion, if that feature is not yet implemented, it should not be in the UI, or at least it should be grayed out.

Otherwise this can be extremely confusing to the users.

I have been using Empathy for a few days now, and I was quite puzzled that sounds would not work as they used to do in Gossip, until I stumbled upon this bug report.

I think that libgnome will not be removed until there is a replacement sound API. Given that, perhaps it's reasonable to make something work with libgnome in the short term.

Xavier, can we just copy in empathy the code from gossip? If not we should really hide the sound options from the configuration dialog.

Created attachment 109019 [details] [review]
Don't display sound options in the preferences dialog

Xavier, here is the quick fix to hide the audio options from the preferences dialog, you can leave this bug report open afterwards but please apply it :)

Thanks for the patch, committed.

This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.