#12886: The Sounds preflet is not populated by any sounds, since the sounds
folders
are not present by default on Haiku.
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Reporter: Giova84 | Owner: korli
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Preferences/Sounds | Version: R1/Development
Keywords: | Blocked By:
Blocking: | Has a Patch: 0
Platform: All |
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hrev50440
I'd wished to set some Sounds for some events (eg the startup sound and
also sounds for BeShare) but I've found that the drop down menu "Sound
file", present inside the Sounds preflet, doesn't shows any sound file
(although is possible to manually indicate a sound file by choosing the
"other" entry). However from a terminal window I checked these outputs:
{{{
finddir B_SYSTEM_SOUNDS_DIRECTORY
finddir B_USER_SOUNDS_DIRECTORY
finddir B_USER_NONPACKAGED_SOUNDS_DIRECTORY
finddir B_SYSTEM_NONPACKAGED_SOUNDS_DIRECTORY
}}}
And I see that the sounds folder should be located as following, but non
of these are currently present on Haiku:
{{{
/boot/system/data/sounds
/boot/home/config/data/sounds
/boot/home/config/non-packaged/data/sounds
/boot/system/non-packaged/data/sounds
}}}
For the packaged folders, ok: is possible to create an HPKG which will
place the sounds on the system, and for the non-packaged folders an user
is free to manually create these folders, but I was thinking to the fact
that a newbie might be puzzled by this fact, so would be nice to add by
default in Haiku, at least the sounds folders under the non-packaged
paths, and maybe to make new users aware of this ability, implement
something like "open the sounds folder" inside the Sounds preflet: this
addition could be something like this:
[[Image(http://funkyimg.com/i/2eFxc.png)]]
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/12886>
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