I cannot remove all system sounds. And, obnoxiously, they crank up the volume to max when they play (or play on a different channel). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Turn off all sound notifications in notifications under all categories. 2. Create a metadata.desktop file that is inadequate for some reason. This should do: [Desktop Entry] Name=RSS Plasmoid Comment=Shows RSS Feeds Encoding=UTF-8 Icon=applications-rss ServiceTypes=Plasma/Applet Type=Service 3. Double-click on the desktop file and it will beep at you!
I can confirm this unpleasant behaviour. plasma-workspace 5.2.2 Arch Linux x86_64
Which phonon backend are you using and are you using pulseaudio?
I am using pulseaudio and same behavior occurs with both vlc and gstreamer backends
If you open kmix or pavucontrol, there's a slider for "Event sounds" (or "System sounds" in PA), muting that should mute notification sounds. All of them. At once.
Actually I hit enter too soon. This will for sure mute notifications from KF5 applications, I'm not sure about kde4/qt4 ones.
Actually knotifications looks like a KF5 application (release 5.9.0), although it's not affected by "event sounds". However if I disable notifications from settings they get turned off, at least that's working for me. Instead if I click on the small button to play the selected notify sound, it raises to volume to 100%, even if system settings is a plasma 5.2.2 application. I'll try to disable pulseaudio later to see if something changes.
Wait, that last comment is a bit confusing. Do I understand it correctly that if you open the notification settings, select a sound and click the play button next to it, the sound volume is raised to 100%?
Yes that's correct and unfortunately yesterday's update didn't solve it. At least it should make clear that triggering any notification sound always raises the volume (but doesn't unmute) to 100%, whether automatically or manually it makes no difference.
I fixed my occurrence of this issue by muting notification sounds for the old (KDE4) system. Run "kcmshell4 kcmnotify", and in the Player Settings tab, set the volume you want. I was having this issue too. I muted Event Sounds in Kmix, disabled notification sounds for Plasma Workspace (in Settings > Notification). While trying to fix another issue though, I noticed that "kcmshell4 --list" has a "kcmnotify" module.
It was not a KDE bug: https://forum.sabayon.org/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=31444 It fixes everything for me on both kde4 and plasma 5.3.1
I can confirm the problem with debian unstable (plasma 5.6.5.1) and amarok (2.8.0) or kdevelop(4.7.3). If a warning pops up I hear a loud notification sound instead of nothing. The Notification setting inside kmix is muted, so I expect all notifications to be quiet independent of there framework (qt4 in this case) they use. As workaround I run "kcmshell4 kcmnotify" to disable all sound for qt4/kde4. If you need more informations, please ask.
I use pulseaudio.
Actually the problem is not just that volume is turned to 100%. Only the master volume is changed, while the per-application controls stay where they were. Thus, you only hear a loud notification sound, but everything goes on like before, and this state can linger unnoticed for quite a while. Until you start a new application, which will inherit the 100% volume and destroy your ears.
miklos: See comment #10
(In reply to David Edmundson from comment #14) > miklos: See comment #10 If this is really a pulseaudio bug, then why is only knotification affected? Anyways, I applied the fix form the Sabayon forums, and now the per-application volumes are 100% by default (instead of being equal to the master), and knotification doesn't mess with the master volume. I guess it still wants to set it to 100% but now it can only change its own per-application volume, which is already at 100%, so it's just avoiding the real bug. One more thing: the "Event sounds" volume slider doesn't do anything at all, so it can't be used to disable notification sounds, as some people suggested.
I can not confirm it on: Operating System: Manjaro Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.16.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.59.0 Qt Version: 5.13.0 Do you still experience it?
I think the issue is about Qt4/KDE4 applications. But nowadays more and more distros remove those completely, that's why it is irrelevant to fix it. As nobody could reproduce it for 2 years, I would suggest to close this bug soon with in three months, if nobody approve, that it is still an issue.
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