Re: Notification sounds

Le ven. 9 janv. 2026 à 10:45, Andrej Valencic <[email protected]> a
écrit :

> Hello!
>
> I was playing with the DK Notification settings a bit. I was trying to
> change the sounds but no matter how i set it up only the default sound
> is ever played for all actions.
>
> I'm running the latest 9.0.0 version on Windows 11 - is this supposed to
> work in this combination?
>
> Regards,
> Andrej


Hi,

I tried the same under macOS, and the sound is played as expected.

The Notification configuration panel come with the KDE framework component
KNofyConfig :

https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/knotifyconfig

In this one the sounds are played with the QtMultimedia framework (that we
use in digiKam too to play the video) :

https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/knotifyconfig/-/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt?ref_type=heads#L57

https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtmultimedia-index.html

Questions :

1/ Did you use the Qt6 version of digiKam under Windows. If you use the
Qt5, switching to Qt6 is the future and the days are numbered for the Qt5.
Note: the Qt5 version does not use the QtMultimedia framework. To check
which Qt version you use, take a look at the Help/Components Info dialog.
2/ If you use the Qt6 version, QtMultimedia relies on the media backend to
play content with the right codec. To see if you use the right backend
(configurable in digiKam Setup/Misc/System dialog page), please try to play
a video in preview mode and look if sound can be heard. If not, configure
the right backend as explained in the online documentation:

https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/miscs_settings.html#system-settings

Best regards

Gilles Caulier