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Bug 596454 - Impossible to customize sound themes
Impossible to customize sound themes
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 650172
Product: gnome-tweak-tool
Classification: Applications
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Tweak Tool maintainer(s)
GNOME Tweak Tool maintainer(s)
plumbing
: 597736 612179 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-09-26 19:08 UTC by Arand
Modified: 2011-06-23 02:19 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Arand 2009-09-26 19:08:30 UTC 
In the later gnome-media (2.25.5 and onwards??) gnome-sound-preferences has been merged into gnome-volume-manager. But gnome-volume-manager is missing the configurations for changing sound theme sounds that were in gnome-sound-preferences.
Comment 1 komputes 2009-10-07 21:36:39 UTC 
*** Bug 597736 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 komputes 2009-10-07 21:40:05 UTC 
I can confirm this.

In GNOME 2.28.0 (using Ubuntu 9.10 karmic) gnome-volume-control doesn't allow
the user to to customize the sound to a wav file (for example). There are only
themes and no way to easily create/specify theme sound effects.

Originally reported here:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-media/+bug/324700
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-media/+bug/445809

Please note that this is not related to login/logout sounds which are handled
by GDM and specified in https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/gdm/+bug/437429
Comment 3 Ryan Hayle 2009-12-12 08:08:14 UTC 
Don't see a way to vote for this, so let me just say that I find this to be quite a regression in terms of usability.  If nothing else, a separate sound theme editor application should be created like Alacarte for menus.
Comment 4 John Baptist 2010-03-02 14:07:07 UTC 
Hi, I can confirm this bug. What's the status of progress on it? Is someone working on it? If not, is there someone who can accept a patch?
Comment 5 Bastien Nocera 2010-03-08 12:28:29 UTC 
*** Bug 612179 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Jet 2010-10-22 21:09:21 UTC 
I can confirm this bug.

Ubuntu seems to be getting around this by keeping remnants of gnome-sound-preferences.

All other distributions have no way of changing sounds.

*(Now, to learn how to make sound themes... :/)*
Comment 7 Bastien Nocera 2010-11-10 13:16:49 UTC 
Mass move to gnome-control-center.
Comment 8 Jet 2010-11-14 08:32:35 UTC 
This is most certainly an issue with gnome-media.

I checked the source code... it seems that (some of?) the theme editor from the old gnome-sound-preferences made it into gnome-media's tree (so, the whole editing panel *is* there), yet for some reason, that panel isn't loaded in the master editor.

Either it's bug-related or it wasn't migrated properly.  In either case, the maintainer for gnome-media should be contacted for further info/status.
Comment 9 Bastien Nocera 2010-12-07 17:23:57 UTC 
There won't be a sound theme selection, or a sound theme editor in the sound panel. People are more than welcome reusing the code I wrote originally for gnome-media to change the sounds one-by-one, and stuff that into the "Plumbing" control-center panel that'll hopefully arrive soon.

Marking as plumbing, and will move when Bugzilla is opened for it.
Comment 10 John Stowers 2011-06-23 02:19:00 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 650172 ***