I've recreated your System Bell issue. SuSE 8.1 Pro, KDE 3.1 from kde.org. As for the "Play a Sound" issue I get strange results but not exactly like yours. At first I get a list of sounds from /opt/kde3/share/sounds/ to choose from. If I then go to another section such as Sounds & Multimedia/System Bell and then go back to Sounds & Multimedia/System Notifications it defaults to my home directory. UNLESS I choose the same sound from the /opt/kde3/share/sounds/ directory, Apply it and that absolute directory is still there when I come back from a different section of kcontrol. THEN it will keep the /opt/kde3/share/sounds/ directory as a default for all the KDE System Notifications. I am always getting a file list but not from the same directory in a consistent manner without manual intervention. Not the behavior I expect in this program. I expect it to know its default directory and keep it except where manually altered per item. Not sure whether this is a bug because the kde.org install of 3.1 (on my otherwise up-to-date via YOU system) did NOT go without some manual tweaking of reinstalling all the RPMs in different orders depending on what worked... I am awaiting the official SuSE 8.1, KDE 3.1 release to check this out again. Stan On Thursday 13 February 2003 01:41 am, David Herman wrote:
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 11:11 pm, David Herman wrote:
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In my case the solution was found in
kcontrolcenter->Regional&Accessibility->Accessibility->Bell
After I checked "Use system bell" then EITHER "System Bell" or "System Notifications" worked for me. If not checked then originally I could only use "System Notifications" (now for some reason both work)
There is some wierd interaction Between the settings under Regional&Accessibility and Sound&Multimedia but darned if I can explain it.
One other oddity, If I try to select "Play a sound" then try to choose a diferent sound than the default the file requester comes up empty. Even though there are tons of sounds available.
This would lead a lesser individual to think that there weren't any appropriate sounds in that directory. It turns out the requester will show only folders not files for some reason.
Now I cancel that requester, Press the reset button (next to apply), go to a diferent settings section (like system bell), then come right back to "System Notifications". At this point I once again choose the activity I want a sound played for, check "Play a sound", open the file requester and magically now it will let me navigate to files.
I would love to know if someone else can reproduce this curious behavior. Or even if they can't.
Thanks for listening. -- dh Don't shop at GoogleGear.com!