Play sound on message

True, we need to add sound functionality. We used to have beep sounds on messages but it had to be disabled for some reason in one of the core upgrades. We used the beep functionality from GDK, but GDK is planned for deprecation soon.

GTK+ also does not provide the possibility to play custom sounds. Therefore, we would have to use some commandline utility like aplay (not sure how standard this is?) as you said or some library (gstreamer?) to play. The library option would require a plugin so as to not add build dependencies.

As far as font changes that's already covered in bug #318595.

0.698->0.705 upgrade changed the 'sound on X' from simple bool value to a string, allowing the sound to be defined by the user. So instead of abusing the string field (by storing "TRUE"/"FALSE") I dropped the sound support for now. As there isn't an easy way to play custom sound files via GTK+.

On a related note I have (or at least had) a branch which restores the sound support, but adds libcanberra as a dependency. I believe the sound part of it is finished and functional, but I felt like the sounds should be customizable (instead of just using default XDG sounds) and that would mean changes to settingsdialog. Something which I didn't feel like doing at that time so I stopped messing around with that branch.

--RZ

In what branch of expected sound notifications?

See how it is implemented in EiskaltDC + + (gtk): 2.2.3 (8eafed5)