System sounds

[Steve Riley]

On 2012-03-14 19:02:53 Georgi Kourtev <gkourtev at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 March 2012 17:49:36 Thomas Tanghus wrote:
> > On Wednesday 14 March 2012 18:25 Georgi Kourtev wrote:
> > > Good evening,
> > > 
> > > From some time ago -- may be after the 4.8.1 upgrade, my system sounds
> > > disappeared (i.e. these during login, new mail, dialogues, etc).  All
> > > other
> > > sound are fine -- I can use Amarok, video, skype, embed video in Firefox
> > > alike.
> > > 
> > > In System setting all seems to be right.  What am I missing here? 
> > > Thanks.
> > > gk
> > 
> > Same happened here after 4.8.1 upgrade. Had to go to System Settings and
> > set the full path to each sound file for it to work.
> > My guess is that it is a packaging error.
> 
> Uhh. Not very convenient...

I put a quick shell script up on Kubuntu Forums that quickly fixes this. I 
suspect it will keep breaking as more updates come out until the underlying 
bug gets fixed.

http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?57819-Notification-Sounds-
Disappeared-after-updates-to-KDE-4-8-1

...Steve