"No sounds" theme missing in sound preferences

[Luis Carlos Cobo]

There isn't a "No sounds" theme to choose as alert sound in the sound preferences. There used to be one, and it is necessary to get rid of system sounds.

A workaround would be to set the "Alert volume" to zero, but that causes all application sounds (e.g. Skype incoming calls) to be muted, which is not what I want.

Another workaround would be to set event-sounds setting with dconf-editor (org->gnome->desktop->sound->event-sounds). When I do this, the theme selection dialog is grayed out, but sounds keep playing. I was think about filing this as a separate bug, but I am not sure which package to file it to.

If I am missing something and there is a way to get rid of system sounds without getting rid of specific application sounds, please let me know.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.2.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-15.25-generic 3.0.13
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jan 9 20:08:28 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-29 (102 days ago)
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
 deja-dup 20.1-0ubuntu0.2
 gnome-bluetooth 3.2.0-0ubuntu2
 indicator-datetime 0.3.1-0ubuntu1.1

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

On 2012-01-10 02:15, Luis Carlos Cobo wrote:
> If I am missing something and there is a way to get rid of system sounds
> without getting rid of specific application sounds, please let me know.

The login sound, which many users considers to be the most intrusive system sound, can be disabled from "Startup Applications...".

[Luis Carlos Cobo (luiscarlos)]

Thanks for the tip, that's already disabled :)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

Sent upstream - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668994

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for sending the bug to GNOME

[wilsonb (wilsonb)]

Also noticed this problem. No sound theme change options anywhere. Has to be done manually through Dcon.
Other than that Ubuntu is perfect ;-)