Bug 156738

Summary: change default folder for browsing for system sound files to /usr/share/sounds
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: Jörg Hermsdorf <yojoe>
Component: kcm_notifyAssignee: Olivier Goffart <ogoffart>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: andresbajotierra
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: Proposed patch

Description Jörg Hermsdorf 2008-01-26 20:01:30 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.0.0)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

If you want to configure a sound for a notification (e.g. the logout sound), using the System Settings -> Notifications -> System Notifications and you click on the "Open file diaglog" icon to browse for files, the default folder you'll find yourself in is "~/Documents". Inexperienced users might not know that they need to navigate to "/usr/share/sounds" to find other kde sounds. Therefore I would to suggest and request, that the default location for the "Open file" dialog when browsing for system sounds is changed to "/usr/share/sounds" instead of the user's Documents folder.

I declare this as a bug, because it is a regression compared to the way it was/is on KDE3.
Comment 1 Dario Andres 2009-01-21 00:44:27 UTC 
I'm in the way of fixing this.... I just sent a patch proposal for KUrlRequester to kde-core mailing list. If they approve the code, I can post the patch for the KNotify KCM
Comment 2 Dario Andres 2009-02-06 23:13:27 UTC 
Created attachment 31059 [details]
Proposed patch

As I commited the change to KUrlRequester, I'm posting the patch for this
Comment 3 Dario Andres 2009-02-11 02:09:15 UTC 
SVN commit 924545 by darioandres:

Set default directory for sounds. It can only be implemented in trunk as it relies on some function added in kdelibs for KDE4.3
BUG: 156738



 M  +7 -1      knotifyconfigactionswidget.cpp  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=924545