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Bug 567106 - Should warn user if GNOME sounds are disabled
Should warn user if GNOME sounds are disabled
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Preferences
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-01-09 01:09 UTC by Olivier Le Thanh Duong
Modified: 2018-05-22 13:18 UTC
See Also:
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Description Olivier Le Thanh Duong 2009-01-09 01:09:20 UTC 
If you activate the sound notification in empathy but they are desactived in the general gnome sound preference it doesn't work. Empathy should either activate it automatically or issue a warning when the option is selected in empathy
Comment 1 Guillaume Desmottes 2009-01-26 21:31:52 UTC 
Some feedback to the user would be good.
Comment 2 onip 2010-02-26 15:27:45 UTC 
what kind of feedback would you like?
I've spent weeks looking for audio problems on my sound setup because empathy didn't sound on new messages. Then I read FAQs (when everithing else fails, read the instructions :) ) and discovered audio themes in gnome. Enabling default theme made empathy speak.

If a dialog had warned me I would have used empathy months earlier, this sound issue really pissed me off sometimes.
Comment 3 Juan R. Garcia Blanco 2010-03-01 09:21:25 UTC 
If Empathy could detect whether gnome sounds are enabled or not, a simple solution would be disabling the sound controls in Empathy, and attach a message inside the sound notebook tab.
Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2011-08-16 18:18:20 UTC 
Given that there is no way to disable sound events, or select another theme in GNOME 3's sound settings, the responsibilities falls with the distributor to set this up in a way that works (if they change the default theme), or the user if they chose to override the theme.
Comment 5 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 13:18:13 UTC 
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