On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > Federico Beffa <be...@ieee.org> skribis: > >> I propose to make sound-theme-freedesktop a propagated input of >> libcanberra. This is because, according to the XDG sound theme >> specification, those event sounds should always be present and used as >> fall-back in case other sounds are not present. >> >> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/sound-theme-spec/ > > That’s not the right fix, I think. For instance, if Evince is installed > in a profile, but libcanberra itself is not in the profile, then the > sound theme is not pulled and ends up not being used. > > Would it be possible, instead, to patch libcanberra to refer to the > sound-theme directory as its fallback?
The location of the sound theme is specified, among other things, by the variable XDG_DATA_DIRS. So, if an application makes use of the glib-or-gtk-build-system and has the sounds as inputs, then it should find them. I don't think we need to patch libcanberra in any way. With my suggestion I was trying to avoid having to specify sound-theme-freedesktop in addition to libcanberra in every gtk application (as, e.g., evince). If we make libcanberra a propagated-input of applications like evince, then they would automatically know the location of the sounds (by the inheritance of propagated inputs). > > Thanks, > Ludo’.
