KDEPIM3 on KDE 4.10.5 Sound and Icon

[John Woodhouse]

I have found an answer myself. Another notification option is run a program so I entered

cvlc ~soundblaster.wav

cvlc is vlc run without the graphical interface.

I have another related question.

When say dolphin --help is entered into the console all of the option available for running dolphin are show. The --help option works on other things as well. Must admit I was glad to see this feature as it makes bash scripts involving kde nice and easy BUT when I tried phonon --help no help at all. In fact there doesn’t seem to be an application called phonon and my machine doesn't recognise either alsa or gstreamer as a command either.

So is there utility that will allow sounds to be played in the same way as cvlc does? The problem with that one is 2 volume controls. I ideally need a method that just uses the main desktop vol control.

John
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On Wed, 24/7/13, John Woodhouse <a_johnlonger at yahoo.com> wrote:

 Subject: [kde] KDEPIM3 on KDE 4.10.5 Sound and Icon
 To: kde at mail.kde.org
 Date: Wednesday, 24 July, 2013, 20:36
 
 Apart from this aspect all seems to
 be ok. I had to install kdepim3-devel to get the import
 facility to pop up,  Assume it works but I had
 transferred the files directly by the time I did that.
 
 Couple of points. As I just transferred all of the kde mail
 directory across I had to edit the kde4 entry to kde3 in the
 resource file.
 
 Initially I thought that the folders had been lost but the
 view just needed adjusting.
 
 The emails didn't show a date until I selected a format for
 it in settings. Once that had been done even the default
 setting it was one worked.
 
 I had trouble launching it from a the desktop but found that
 an ordinary link worked along with the terrible looking icon
 that it produced. A reboot somehow converted this to a
 normal desktop file along with a nice icon. One problem here
 is that I can't find anyway to get that icon onto and launch
 from the quick launch panel.
 
 Lastly, any thoughts one how I may be able to get sound
 notification to work? I have used a soundblaster wav file
 for years. The general system has no problems playing it.
 Just Kmail.
 
 John
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