Sound hint

[kopr12]

Any chance for implementing sound hint ?

For example
notify-send "Sound test" --hint=string:sound-file:/path/to/sound.wav

this works in most notification daemons.

[ghost]

I have the following in my dunstrc

dunstrc

[play_sound]
summary = "*"
script = ~/bin/alert.sh

alert.sh

#!/bin/sh
splay /home/gregf/.sounds/beep.mp3

As a quick solution.

[kopr12]

Little tedious but works, thanks!

[bebehei]

Well, there is the sound-file hint in the notification spec.

But I think I can speak for us both: We don't want to implement it and neither maintain it.

[kopr12]

The whole thing is maybe 10 lines of code, max.

Was thinking of making a PR but if there's no interest for it I'm not gonna bother.

[tsipinakis]

I'd gladly accept a PR if you want to implement it.

[kopr12]

I'll try, might take a few days to see how dunst functions.
But basically, it just needs canberra-gtk.h and ca_gtk_play_for_widget function from it.
Grab filename from the sound-file hint and pass it to that function to play it.

[tsipinakis]

I'd propose we just use the infrastructure available with the scripts and let the user provide a command to run, e.g. sound_cmd = mpv.

Everyone has at least some one audio player installed and I'd rather avoid adding any more dependencies.

[kopr12]

Sure, that works just fine, I just didn't know about it, installed dunst yesterday for the first time, must say I like it, the only thing that was confusing was that sound hint thing, not confusing but missing actually.

Using scripts is fine, that's why I closed this issue once I found out about it.

Playing sound from the code without adding more dependencies is not doable, I think.

[kopr12]

I'm using aplay, part of alsa-utils.

IMHO, the best solution would be to take the hint and play it with command specified in dunstrc, option to turn sound on or off would also be there.

[tsipinakis]

IMHO, the best solution would be to take the hint and play it with command specified in dunstrc, option to turn sound on or off would also be there.

Sorry if I wasn't clear, that's exactly what I was suggesting :p

[kopr12]

You was clear, dunno why I said it like that :)

Guess I wanted to say that I would be happy to see that implemented that way :D