gnome-sound-properties does not play all sound effects

I can play those sound files after i manually assign a sound to them. But you are right, there should be a default sound shipped with all actions.

did you read my comment on this other bug about not writting the version in the title?

Thank you but I don't confirm that:

- start the dialog
- select the "new e-mail" or "empty trash" line
- click on default, select custom in the combo, select question.wav

the question.wav is displayed in the next colum and clicking on the play icon plays the sound

what soundfile did you try? is it displayed in the next column?

> clicking on the play icon plays the sound

This is the part that does not work for me, only on certain items.

> what soundfile did you try?

Like you, I used question.wav to test this. This is the ubuntu drums we usually get at the GDM longin prompt.

I just tested it on new installation of the latest Jaunty daily image on different hardware. I still can reproduce this problem with some items, even after having customizing them.

-Toggle button clicked
-Window maximized
-Window unmaximized
-Window minimized
-New e-mail
-Empty Trash
-Battery warning

-Button Clicked still plays the old sound even after having been customized.

reopening, the issue happens only sometimes and the dialog is deprecated upstream, that's probably not going to be worked any time soon though but a good contributor task if somebody wants to look to the issue

I agree with Sebastien that this should not be a priority. While we are talking about changes to sound effects, I would like to express my opinion. I find that, in Jaunty, the locations for sound effects are decentralized as the user can change it from the Volume control panel/mixer and the Sound preferences. The user must also know that "Login window" admin utility contains the system wide sound effect like the GDM drums, and still contains sound options that it no longer manages. This disconnect could be very confusing to end users of Ubuntu. I would appreciate discussing usability concepts for centralized sound control with anyone willing to contribute.

This is tied to a much larger issue that I wish wasn't brushed over by so many when i inquire about it. Just as the original stated, on my System (Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit) the following sounds do not play, even if you customize them:

-Window maximized
-Window unmaximized
-Window minimized
-New e-mail
-Empty Trash
-Long action
-Battery warning

Whats more, NO SOUND EVENTS PLAY except "Login". Even the sounds that I customize which do play when I click on the play icon within System --> Preferences --> Sound will not play during their assigned event.

So again, a number of sounds don't play within System --> Preferences --> Sound, and customized sounds won't play when the correct event is triggered ("New e-mail", "Logout", "Empty trash", etc.).

I confirm the bug, I get the exact same symptoms as jlaroche on Jaunty.

I investigated after I realized I wouldn't get sound alerts for new email in evolution.

So it seems that this is "not a priority" although many people confirm that sounds simply DO NOT WORK. Again, this is not a matter of sounds not being set by default in shipped version of Ubuntu. Rather, this is a matter of sounds not being played when their respective events are triggered... or in simple terms: Most of the sound events simply don't work.

I've been having some of the same problems as the rest of you. When I started making changes to the event sounds in system->preferences->sound: sound tab, my theme was blank, then changed to "custom." None of my settings would stick, and the preview buttons would only preview the default sounds for each item. I did not experience jlaroche's problem of only the login event sound playing.

After much google-searching, I found https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libcanberra/+bug/347537, which describes a workaround where you have to change your theme to "ubuntu" to get settings to stick. My sound changes now stick, even after reboots and logouts. Hope this works for everybody else...

I think this is a related bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/277203

The interface described here has been rewritten/changed which deprecate the issue. Feel free to open new reports for issues you might find in current versions though