https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418686
Bug ID: 418686
Summary: no sounds from Skrooge flatpak app
Product: skrooge
Version: Trunk from git
Platform: Flatpak
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: minor
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: guillaume.deb...@gmail.com
Reporter: skierp...@gmail.com
CC: steph...@mankowski.fr
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
When I ran the skrooge flatpak in 2019-06, the console showed a warning
##WARNING: Audio notification requested, but sound file from notifyrc file
was not found, aborting audio notification
and there are no sounds.
Searching for "flatpak" and this warning message suggests that the marble and
kdenlive flatpaks also don't play notification sounds, but I haven't reproduced
this problem with them.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. flatpak install org.kde.skrooge
2. flatpak run org.kde.skrooge
3a Click Accounts, create an account (choose any bank icon, enter Account
"test" and Number "1234" and click [+ Add]).
3b Open Settings > Notifications, choose a notification, and click the [▶]
play button.
OBSERVED RESULT
The following appeared at startup in the terminal:
##WARNING: Audio notification requested, but sound file from notifyrc file
was not found, aborting audio notification
And when I performed operations that normally play a happy sound, there's no
sound.
EXPECTED RESULT
No startup warning, and sounds.
skrooge.notifyrc specifies
Sound=Oxygen-Sys-App-Error.ogg
Sound=Oxygen-Sys-App-Negative.ogg
Sound=Oxygen-Sys-App-Message.ogg
Sound=Oxygen-Sys-App-Positive.ogg
strace showed the flatpak app tries to access these sounds from
$HOME/.var/app/org.kde.skrooge/data/sounds/
/app/share/sounds/
/usr/share/sounds/
/run/host/share/sounds/
and they're not available in any location, hence the warning.
In Fedora, these files are in /usr/share/sounds/ , supplied by the
oxygen-sound-theme package, so maybe that package should be part of the KDE
Platform runtime the same way the Oxygen icons and the
share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/ files are; I filed bug 409300 against the
Qt/KDE Flatpak Runtime project, from which I "forked" this bug against Skrooge.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
flatpak version 1.4.1
Linux/KDE Plasma:
(available in About System)
^ from `flatpak run --command='kdeinit5' org.kde.Platform --version`
KDE Plasma Version: n/a
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.12.4
Qt Version: 5.59.0
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I retried this in 2020 recently with newer Flatpak 1.4.4 and runtimes, and came
up with a workaround. If I
a) copy these four Oxygen-Sys-App-* sound files either to the Skrooge flatpak
app's data directory $HOME/.var/app/org.kde.skrooge/data/sounds/ or to the KDE
Platform runtime directory
/var/lib/flatpak/runtime/org.kde.Platform/x86_64/5.12/active/files/share/sounds
b) start Skrooge nightly with `flatpak run --socket=pulseaudio org.kde.skrooge`
then I hear sounds! If I only do a) skrooge prints
AL lib: (EE) ALCplaybackOSS_open: Could not open /dev/dsp: No such file or
directory
in the console.
To fix b) add
"--socket=pulseaudio",
to "finish-args" in org.kde.skrooge.json. (FWIW this is already in Flathub's
"recipe"
https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.skrooge/blob/master/org.kde.skrooge.json .)
While waiting for some resolution to bug 409300 perhaps Skrooge could fix a) by
incorporating these sound files somewhere in its flatpak build.
--
You are receiving this mail because:
You are watching all bug changes.
