Notifications have no alert sounds

[Julian Edwards]

In 12.04 Precise, any notifications that appear have no sound alert with them. For example, in the kmail send-confirmation dialog, or Quassel's highlight notifications.

This was working fine in Oneiric. Two of my machines that were upgraded to Precise now have the same problem.

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

All other sound works fine, eg. from Amarok.

[Sam Rog (samrog131)]

This seems to be a Qt bug: https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-22382

[Sam Rog (samrog131)]

From the Kubuntu Forums: http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?56855-Qt-4-8, http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?56931-How-To-Fix-silent-notification-sounds and http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?57216-No-system-sounds.

[Sam Rog (samrog131)]

KDE Bug Tracking System: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285028

[Sam Rog (samrog131)]

...and one more - kde-release-team: http://lists.kde.org/?t=132443221600001&r=1&w=2 and http://lists.kde.org/?t=132505973000001&r=1&w=2

[Manuel Seelaus (seelaman)]

quick and dirty workaround:

- write a short shell script that plays the sound using mplayer or similar
- have quassel execute that script using "Run Command" (for example on highlight)

Example:
$ cat bin/highlight.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
mplayer /usr/share/sounds/KDE-Im-Highlight-Msg.ogg

- Then in Quassel's highlight settings, check "Run command" and point it to your highlight.sh