| Summary: | Option to disable knotify sounds when full KDE is not installed | ||
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| Product: | [Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-knotifications | Reporter: | Lucio Crusca <lucio> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Lucio Crusca <lucio> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | kdelibs-bugs, nicolas.fella |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Debian unstable | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/04/msg00050.html | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
Notifications use the special event sound channel that can be configured with tools like pavucontrol. I consider this resolved. Do you mean that notifications always used that channel and this bug never existed or that it's now the case and I should update to the latest version of something? I only now that it's this way now, I don't know since when this is the case Then I think it might be safer to close this bug with status "CLOSED - NOT A BUG". Both KDE 5 and PulseAudio 3 (first to have pavucontrol that I know of) date back years before I opened this bug, and it's likely this kind of architecture hasn't changed withing a KDE major release cycle. |
I run Xfce and a few KDE apps, but I haven't the full KDE desktop installed. When the KDE apps show notifications, some KDE subsystem library plays a sound (I assume it's knotify but I'm not sure) and it raises the sound volume. There used to be a systemsettings command that let users access sound settings also when not running KDE, but that's not the case anymore, since the new systemsettings5 does not offer audio configuration. A workaround is removing read permissions to the sound files with # chmod o-r /usr/share/sounds/KDE* but that obviously falls short of a real solution. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Xfce and Konquest, but not the full KDE environment 2. Turn sound volume off in Xfce 3. Play konquest and look for a way to silence it Actual Results: Konquest plays a sound on each notification and there's no applet or command to adjust the sound volume for it (or any other KDE app), Expected Results: KDE apps sould respect the sound volume set by the user in a different desktop environment or KDE libraries should offer a command to adjust their sound volume (the latter being what I suggest here).