The Skrooge finance app nightly flatpak build doesn’t make sounds in my upgraded Fedora 43 beta KDE install. So I installed another app with sound notifications KTeaTime, as both an RPM and as a flatpak, and that also doesn’t make any notification sounds. To reproduce launch Skrooge and choose Settings > Configure Notifications… or right-click on KTeaTime in the system tray to bring up its context menu and choose Configure Notifications… Select a notification and press the [
] play sound button before the semantic name of the notification (e.g. “dialog-error serious”). If I start them from a terminal I see errors
kf.notifyconfig: Failed to play sound with canberra: File or data not found
But… if I go to System Settings > Application Settings > Tea Cooker and click the [] play sound button, I do hear something.
I ran strace and I see System Settings > Notifications opens up /home/spage/.cache/event-sound-cache.tdb.<long UUID here>.x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, and then reads
pread64(27, "ocean\0dialog-error-serious\0en_US"..., 46, 9072) = 46 pread64(27, "\272\206\361h/usr/share/sounds/ocean/ster"..., 60, 9118) = 60
and then opens a few sounds/ locations before opening
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/sounds/ocean/stereo/dialog-error-serious.oga", O_RDONLY) = 28
which is the right sound in the theme. But the apps don’t seem to open up any cache, they just try to access dialog-error-serious (with no extension) in various locations without accessing any theme directory, e.g.:
access("/usr/share/sounds/dialog-error-serious", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
It’s as if the apps don’t know about my configured theme, even though System Settings > Notifications does. Ocean is new, replacing Oxygen, and I’ve upgraded KDE several times (without ever messing with sound themes), so maybe I have some leftover config settings causing problems.
I filed bug 510702 . It would be great if someone could try Configure Notifications… in KTeaTime (it’s a tiny app) and click its [] play sound button for “Tea is getting lonely” and respond here or in the bug whether it fails or works. Thanks so much!