Re: Notification sounds

Hello,

Unfortunately I don't have a user to report a bug at the kde.org.

Anyway it's not so important, I can use DK without this functionality.

Regards,
Andrerj

On 12/01/2026 14:04, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> 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 
> <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
>