Turn off selected system sound events?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 10:13:16PM -0700, June Tate wrote:

> 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?

It's also a known Ubuntu bug:

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1746

> 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.

This is why all desktop programs in main are configured to use esd by
default.

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

The bug is being tracked here:

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1746

where it is indicated that we are currently deferring to upstream on this
issue.  You are welcome to submit a patch to Bugzilla for a workaround until
then.

-- 
 - mdz