Bug#513774: gnome-desktop-environment: lenny install - gnome-audio not installed by default

[George Kirkham]

Regards your comment: "Yes, these sounds suck :", I don't mind the sound 
theme, though it would be great if there were a number of sound themes 
to choose from.

My desire is that Debian would be easy to install and to use so that 
people who are not computer experts, would be able to install Debian 
with the full functionality of an Open Source Operating System, and also 
allowing them to later manually install "non-free" components as per 
their needs or requirements.

My point is that gnome has a sound theme and it is not installed by 
default, which just seems strange. If someone does not like the sound 
theme then it would be easy to "turn it off" but for the average user it 
would nice if it was actually installed, even it if was not enabled by 
default.

Would you be able to answer a related question for me. I find that even 
when I install gnome-audio and enable the sound theme, it does not 
produce sound. I believe that this is because gnome uses ALSA by default 
while Debian installs OSS by default. Is there a gnome OSS library that 
can be installed to allow gnome to produce sound in a default 
installation of Debian (after gnome-audio is installed and System Sounds 
are installed).

Thanks,

George.





Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le dimanche 01 février 2009 à 14:23 +1100, George Kirkham a écrit :
>   
>> gnome-desktop-environment only "Suggests: gnome-audio", and so when debian lenny is installed, the default 
>> installation does not install gnome-audio, and has to be installed manually. Is there a reason that gnome-audo 
>> is not installed with gnome-desktop-environment and/or debian lenny installation ?
>>
>> I would expect that System Sounds (ie gnome-audio) would be installed by default.
>>     
>
> Yes, these sounds suck. We may consider installing a sound theme by
> default when there is one available that doesn’t make everyone want to
> smash his computer with a baseball bat every time a sound is emitted.
>
>