Bug 353970

Summary:	Notification sounds do not play
Product:	[Plasma] plasma-pa	Reporter:	james.pittman.0210
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Rosca <nowrep>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	minor	CC:	chaofeng111, nate, plasma-bugs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.4.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description james.pittman.0210 2015-10-16 17:18:45 UTC

The system's default notification sounds (including 'im' and 'k3b' groups, etc.), when referenced by their path (i.e. /usr/share/sounds/KDE-[...].ogg), do not play - either through use of the appropriate setting button or when a notification generated).
However, simply referencing the file name alone (i.e. KDE-[...].ogg) results in the sound playing correctly - both through the configuration module and through notification generation.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open 'Notifications' configuration module
2. Check 'Play a sound' for any notification type
3. Enter a path to a system sound (i.e. /usr/share/sounds/KDE-Sys-App-Message.ogg) - This also applies if selected from the file dialogue
4. Try to play the sound by clicking on the play button to the side and/or by having a notification generated for the associated event.

Actual Results:  
No sound was played

Expected Results:  
The selected sound should be played

Comment 1 Chao Feng 2016-06-10 08:53:34 UTC

I tested at my side(v5.6.90), the sound play out. So could you retest in your side again? 

If it still fail, does the ogg file play nicely if you open it in file manager directly?

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2019-11-14 17:53:29 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 407397 ***