On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 11:48:14 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote:

> > So holly, is arts absolutely necessary to get KDE system sounds?  I
> > installed KDE 3.4 without arts.  Alsa does fine as does amarok, gaim,
> > and several others _except_ KDE.  I guess arts is the reason, huh?
> 
> Yep. As long as a KDE application doesn't have an audio interface of
> its own, it uses arts for audio output. If arts isn't available, it
> will not be able to output sound.

You can also configure KDE to use an external player for system sounds

Control Centre -> Sound & Multimedia -> System Notifications -> Player Options


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