On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 06:38:08PM +0200, Ionuț Bîru wrote:
Sound preferences exists only if you install pulseaudio and corresponding pulse package for gnome (pacman -S pulseaudio-gnome)
Why pulse audio? I have heard so much bad press about it, I never installed it on my system. I have other facilities on my system that require sound to transcend multiple users like speech dispatcher and screen reader applications that are adversely affected by using pulse audio. I wonder if I could just find and build the sound preferences portion myself with my own package without using pulse? I understand that once pulse is running, you can't use ALSA or anything else at the same time.
Gnome project relies on sound-theme-freedesktop as the default theme from it. For some reasons they removed the login and logout sound and many more to replace it. That happened more that 1 year ago.
If you want sounds, try search a sound theme on gnome-look.org
Actually, I have the borealis package tarball here and was figuring to install it. It is just the sound files though so I need to know how to tell GNOME where to find these files and associate them with the appropriate events. It is these sound events I can't find in GNOME to assign the files.