Switching off all ound notifications

[Antonio Augusto (Mancha)]

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 13:02, marc <gmane at auxbuss.com> wrote:
> Antonio Augusto (Mancha) said:
>
>> 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 :)
>
> No I didn't.
>
>> They are two different things, so how come you want them to behave as
>> one?
>
> <sigh> Try some education before you start slinging arrows.
>
> Phonon is a high-level API. Look it up. Pulse is a broader API and an
> audio engine.
>
>  $ ps -e
>
> Look ma, a process!
>
> If you understood ought about abstraction, then you'd know that one
> abstraction layer can use another. They are different things, but of the
> same domain/context/problem space.
>
> And please don't attribute to me your delusional ramblings.
>

LOL!
So... Phonon is a high-level API, Pulse is a audio engine. Phonon can use pulse.
So, if I mute Phonon am I muting Pulse? ;)