Re: Notification sounds

Hi,

Interesting. If the test sound in Notifications dialog works, well i don't
know why the sound is not played at the event.

In all cases, the code to play the sound at the event is definitively in
the KDE KNotifications framework component (KNotifyConfig is the widgets
collection to set up the notifications).

Please report the issue in the git repository:

https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/knotifications/-/issues?sort=created_date&state=opened&first_page_size=20

Thanks in advance

Gilles Caulier


Le lun. 12 janv. 2026 à 13:54, Andrej Valencic <[email protected]> a
écrit :

> 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
>
>
>