gnome-sound-properties previews sounds it can't play

[Jim Rorie]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

This is under Jaunty Beta, AMD64 on a macbook pro 5,1.

It is possible to select a sound under gnome sound properties that the system cannot play. To demonstrate, create a sound file in your home directory. Select that file under an event, such as empty trash. The preview should work and play the file as normal. However, when the event fires, it will not play.

This can be resolved by creating a link to the file in the /usr/share/sounds directory and selecting that file instead. My suspicion is that it is a permissions issue, but I can't for the life of me figure our how it can play a root file but not a user file.

The result of this is that the user will select a custom file and the default file will play instead, thus generating a bug report.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, I'm not confirming the issue but sounds events work in an inconsistant way that's not new and is probably not directory specific

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Could you try if that's still an issue on karmic?

[Jim Rorie (jfrorie)]

Err, I'd love to. But it appears the that the gnome-sound-properties doesn't exist in Karmic or the repositories. All I'm getting is the standard gnome-volume control stuff.

Was this removed for Karmic?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. A new version of GNOME Control Center is available on Maverick and we are wondering if this bug is still an issue for you with that version? Could you please test and comment back? Thanks in advance.

[Jim Rorie (jfrorie)]

Since this feature is no longer in Ubuntu, I don't think it's possible to test.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That configuration dialog is deprecated in GNOME3 and Oneiric so closing the bug, feel free to open new bugs about other issues you might find though