new kde4 system notification sounds menu does not point to sounds directory

[Lars Noodén]

Binary package hint: kde

New K Menu -> System Settings -> Look&Feel -> Notifications -> Play a Sound

There is an icon to the right hand side of the input box for "Play A Sound" Clicking that icon goes to the user home directory. It should go to the directory where the current sound is located or else to the directory where system notification sounds are generally kept.

(Also, the icon appears to be one of a tractor-feed printer. It should be modified to correspond to an image more related to the filesystem.)

(Also, the option ought to be called "notification sounds" or "sounds" rather than the vaguer "notifications")

This is from "kubuntu-kde4-8.04-alternate-amd64.iso"

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04
$ uname -a
Linux macbook 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 12:47:45 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov)]

Thank you for filing this bug. I can confirm that it opens the home directory and should open the directory with system sounds.

The icon used there is an open folder and is used throughout KDE4 for open file. "Notifications" is correct because it includes several kinds of notifications, not just sounds.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

The fix has been committed in trunk and will be released with KDE 4.3 in Kubuntu 9.10 this October.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

The fix has been released to the development version of Kubuntu 9.10.
Backported packages of the KDE 4.3 beta will be made available for Kubuntu 9.04 users in the next few days.