Re: Notification sounds

Hello Giles,

I'm using the Qt6 version for a long time now.
I've already tried with some videos and the sound is present (on my 
monitor's internal speaker and also on external bluetooth speaker).

I forgot to mention that when in the Notifications setting dialog I try 
and test the sounds all are heard on the speaker.
I'm including the relevant settings page on my installation.

Any other suggestions about what I might try?

Regards,
Andrej

On 10/01/2026 09:03, Gilles Caulier wrote:
>
>
> 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