Turn off selected system sound events?

[June Tate]

On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 23:38 -0400, volvoguy wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 01:17:43 +0100, Darren Wheatley <darren at tenjin.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone know how to turn off select system sound events, especially
> > the default beep when applications are selected from the menus?
> > 
> > I don't want to turn off ALL sound events, but the dialog in preferences
> > will only let me choose a replacement sound file, not "none".
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> 
> Computer > Desktop Preferences > Sound
> 
> The general tab has a checkbox to enable or disable all the event
> sounds. The sound events tab lists the different events. I think
> you'll just want to remove the sound under "User interface events"
> called "Choose menu item".

Unfortunately, it is currently impossible to remove a specific sound
event from the "User interface events" tab. When you select the event
and clear the "Sound file" box and click close, the previously cleared
sound file is still there.

This is a known upstream bug, and the GNOME developers haven't found a
way to fix it yet. The latest comment from Kjartan Maraas (a GNOME
developer) about it was, "We need a way to deactivate individual sound
events, but I'm not sure the current api allows that in an easy way."
Sounds to me like they might not fix this until another 2.1x release, or
until the API changes again. Perhaps someone should add this to the FAQ?

Quite frankly, I'm a little tempted to hack a fix into the sound
preferences app for this and pass on the patch to the GNOME and Ubuntu
developers. It's really kinda silly to not provide this functionality --
especially when programs that use /dev/dsp can't because esd
blocked /dev/dsp first due to the "choose menu item" sound event.

Matt (mdz), would this be a welcome patch or are you guys already
pursuing a fix to this problem?

--
June Tate * june at theonelab.com * http://www.theonelab.com

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