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[Approved] Plasma 6 Proposal: Sound theme support

With the discussion of the new Blue Ocean theme there came an idea to create a new KCM for sounds theme. The most obvious idea is to use XDG Sound Theme spec which currently KDE software lacks.

As far as I understand all KF5 apps rely on KNotifications for event producing and configuration. The sound file is defined in the corresponding notifyrc file and being played by KNotifications via libcanberra or phonon by a file URL.

XDG specification defines names of sounds and an algorithm of getting a particular file name using the sound's name and a selected theme name.

My idea is to extend notifyrc files with the support of system sound name field and a new SystemSound event action which will lookup and play the sound by it's name. The event configuration window will allow users to select if they want to use a sound file or a sound name. kdeglobals will get a new field for the sound theme

This mechanism will allow us to use GNOME sounds themes (such as Ubuntu's Yaru), sync sounds with GTK and create a KCM for the sound sets management. This also won't change anything for apps, only the sound name could be added declaratively to the existing event configuration.

I really hope I got the whole existing architecture right and my proposal makes any sense. I'd be glad to hear any ideas, corrections and improvements.

@teams/vdg

Edit (by @iasensio): If you allow me, I'd like to use this issue to track the on-going progress and the required tasks to achieve the proposal.

Sound Theme Support

Ocean Sound Theme

(General sub-task: #40 (closed))

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Edited by Nate Graham