Notify OSD

The feature can be tested with notify-send:
notify-send --hint=string:sound-name:phone-incoming-call "Yay" "sound-name hint"
notify-send --hint=string:sound-file:/usr/share/sounds/gnome/default/alerts/sonar.ogg "Yay" "sound-file hint"

Note that a bubble's sound plays when it appears, and libcanberra-gtk (+PulseAudio) position the sound so it seems to come from the notification bubble.

lp://staging/~dylanmccall/notify-osd/sounds-support updated on 2010-12-05

431. By Dylan McCall on 2010-12-05: Remove type check for suppress-sound hint. If the hint is there, immediately set suppress_sound to TRUE.

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Dylan McCall (dylanmccall) wrote on 2010-12-05:

To test suppress-sound, you'll need a sufficiently long sound (but the file can't be too big or Canberra will refuse to play it). Try something like this:

notify-send --hint=string:sound-file:/home/dylan/Desktop/Freedom.ogg --hint=string:suppress-sound: "Testing" "suppress-sound hint"

Run that twice, giving it your own sound-file. The specification on this one wasn't completely clear to me, but my implementation will stop any other notification sounds generated by notify-osd.

I noticed that pynotify doesn't deal in Boolean hints (which the specification wants), and I couldn't find any other hints that were boolean either. So, in revision 431 I made this not look at the type of the hint. If the hint is there, it's assumed that suppress_sound should be True.

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Mirco Müller (macslow) wrote on 2011-02-13:

This patch causes notification bubbles not to show up at all (but attached sound-files are played). I'm not sure what's causing the bubble not to appear. I've used these to commands to test this on current natty:

notify-send "Incoming call" "Yo dude, answer the damn phone" -i ubuntu-logo --hint=string:sound-file:/usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/phone-incoming-call.ogg

notify-send "Line busy" "Please call again later" -i gnome-foot --hint=string:sound-file:/usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/phone-outgoing-busy.ogg

I see and hear the first bubble, but the second bubble does not get displayed. I only hear the sound file played of the second one.

review: Needs Fixing

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Dylan McCall (dylanmccall) wrote on 2011-02-15:

Interesting… I tried to reproduce that problem but I haven't seen it yet :o
I tried under both Maverick and Natty (under a VM) with this branch. (I had to rebase it to the current lp:notify-osd to get it to build under Natty).

Was this consistently happening on your end, or should I be looking for more of a chance occurrence?

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Andrew Somerville (andy-somerville) wrote on 2016-06-16:

Seems like this died several years ago. Any replacement?

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431. By Dylan McCall on 2010-12-05

Remove type check for suppress-sound hint. If the hint is there, immediately set suppress_sound to TRUE.

430. By Dylan McCall on 2010-04-17

Renamed sound-id to sound-name, matching specification at http://people.canonical.com/~agateau/notifications-1.1/spec/ar01s08.html

Set ID for sound-file, sounds, too, so suppress-sound works reliably.

429. By Dylan McCall on 2010-03-27

Implement suppress-sound hint. Haven't been able to test this, but it _should_ work, I think...

428. By Dylan McCall on 2010-03-27

Initial support for sounds in notify-osd.

This adds a dependency on libcanberra-gtk, which carries out the actual playing of event sounds.
This uses the sound-file hint described in the Desktop Notification Specification.
In addition, there is a non-standard x-sound-id hint.

Implementation so far plays sounds, but does not fully comply with the specification. Still need to implement suppress-sounds :)