Switching off all ound notifications

[Antonio Augusto (Mancha)]

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 09:33, marc <gmane at auxbuss.com> wrote:
> Antonio Augusto (Mancha) said:
>
>> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 04:30, marc <gmane at auxbuss.com> wrote:
>>> Clay Weber said:
>>>
>>>> On Thursday 30 April 2009 6:26:48 pm marc wrote:
>>>>> Clay Weber said:
>>>>> > On Thursday 30 April 2009 6:06:00 pm marc wrote:
>>>>> >> It used to be possible to switch off all sound notifications in a
>>>>> >> single click. I can't find where to do this now. Anyone know?
>>>>> >> Thanks.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Try System Settings / Notifications / Player Settings and check "no
>>>>> > audio output"
>>>>> > That , um, sounds like that is what you are looking for
>>>>>
>>>>> Ah, I thought that was for all audio, not just notifications.
>>>>>
>>>>> However, it doesn't work for gnome apps (in Kubuntu), which continue
>>>>> peeping and pinging and burbling every time you hit a button. And, of
>>>>> course, the apps themselves don't have their own audio controls; I
>>>>> know not why, I really don't.
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, you will probably have to go into gnome's preferences
>>>> and disable it there, too.
>>>>
>>>> You are more or less running two separate desktop environments that
>>>> don't use the same settings. There are some standards, such as menus
>>>> and similar, but once you open a gnome app, it will look for gnome
>>>> settings. KDE's settings aren't used there (and vice-versa).
>>>
>>> Yup, but I really thin they should be unified in this case. As I
>>> implied, this whole "new" area hasn't been thought through at all.
>>>
>>>
>> This is no easy feat IMHO, since, for starts Gnome and KDE use two
>> completly different sound architecture. KDE4 uses Phonon and Gnome is
>> using Pulseaudio, so no, in the short term, I can't see this changing.
>
> Nah, phonon can use pulse audio. They are two different things.

So you just demonstrated my point :)
They are two different things, so how come you want them to behave as one?

>
>> After all this is what makes them TWO different desktops, instead of a
>> single project.
>
> Linux is a multi user system. If gnome and kde can't live together then
> we're stuffed.

Multi user yeah: if two uses log-on on the system and one uses KDE and
the others uses Gnome the settings of one won't mess with that of the
other. Thats what multiuser means.

What you want is interoperability and integration between two
different applications. And thats up to the developers of each
application.

> You can't just wave your arms and say this issue is inherent in having
> both available. Where the heck do you stop with that line of reasoning?

So, tell me whats the problem is then. If its not inherent to using
two different apps, that use two different architectures, than I don't
really know what can be :)
What you are trying to do is more or less tha same sa saying: I want
my bookmarks on Firefox to appear in Konqueror automagically, and
vice-versa.

This can be accomplished only if both teams decide to store their
bookmarks on the same location and with the same format.

Hope i made myself clear.

Cheers.