Comment 10 for bug 326607

Sebastien--I thought I was clear enough--There now is no way to change the default sound theme or default alert volume other than thru gconf. The capplet had a button to enable that control panel--before it, you could just goto gnome-control-centre and use the control panel. It has been removed.

Discussion on this topic is at: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1062561

The crux of the problem is that when you removed the capplet, it caused more than just the capplet to leave....availability to easy access of the control panel was removed also.