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Description of problem: mail-notification uses /usr/bin/gst-launch-0.10 (provided by gstreamer 0.10 package) to play the sound (when enabled), however, gstreamer 0.10 package is not listed as a dependency for mail-notification, which can lead to sound not working if gstreamer 0.10 is not installed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 5.4-86.git.eab5c1 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. ensure gstreamer 0.10 is not installed 2. enable sound within mail-notification configuration dialog 3. select "Display test message" in config dialog Actual results: No sound is played. Expected results: Sound file should be played. Additional info: the command used to play the sound file is in gconf at /apps/mail-notification/sounds/play-command the default value is: exec gst-launch-0.10 filesrc location=%file ! decodebin ! audioconvert ! gconfaudiosink >/dev/null 2>&1 Perhaps this should be edited to use /usr/bin/gst-launch-1.0 (from gstreamer 1.0) instead of gst-launch-0.10 (from gstreamer 0.10)? However, just replacing "gst-launch-0.10" with "gst-launch-1.0" doesn't seem to do the trick. I've worked around this issue by setting the command to the following: exec paplay '%file' &>/dev/null
We should avoid the hard dependency on any gstreamer for sound (as well as on any mailer program for mail reading), since it is an additional option, and it is not required for the main mail-notification work (ie. inform user about new mail visually). Certainly, the default value for /apps/mail-notification/sounds/play-command should be changed, as gstreamer-0.10 is going to be obsoleted. Unfortunately, the upstream of MN is stalled, and it seems that nothing will be changed there. Could you please try to explain why gst-launch-1.0 does not work? (I would like to try to avoid paplay since it probably might be not installed).
paplay is provided by pulseaudio-utils, which is installed by default in the Mate spin of Fedora 24 (I can't confirm whether this is default in the other desktop flavors). regarding replacing "gst-launch-0.10" with "gst-launch-1.0" ... this produces the following command (note that I know nothing about either version of gst-launch or whether they're supposed to be compatible): exec gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=%file ! decodebin ! audioconvert ! gconfaudiosink >/dev/null 2>&1 To test from the command line, you have to remove "exec" and ">/dev/null 2>&1", and you have to replace "%file" with a path to a sound file. This produces the following message: WARNING: erroneous pipeline: no element "gconfaudiosink" If I remove "! gconfaudiosink", output is: Setting pipeline to PAUSED ... Pipeline is PREROLLING ... Pipeline is PREROLLED ... Setting pipeline to PLAYING ... New clock: GstSystemClock ERROR: from element /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstDecodeBin:decodebin0/GstOggDemux:oggdemux0: Internal data stream error. Additional debug info: gstoggdemux.c(4849): gst_ogg_demux_loop (): /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstDecodeBin:decodebin0/GstOggDemux:oggdemux0: stream stopped, reason not-linked Execution ended after 0:00:00.000220779 Setting pipeline to PAUSED ... Setting pipeline to READY ... Setting pipeline to NULL ... Freeing pipeline ...
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the command used to play the sound file is in gconf at /apps/mail-notification/sounds/play-command the current value of: exec gst-launch-0.10 filesrc location=%file ! decodebin ! audioconvert ! gconfaudiosink >/dev/null 2>&1 should be replaced with: exec gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=%file ! decodebin ! audioconvert ! autoaudiosink >/dev/null 2>&1 (replace "gst-launch-0.10" with "gst-launch-1.0" and "gconfaudiosink" with "autoaudiosink") this will cause mail-notification to use gstreamer 1.0 instead of gstreamer 0.10 could you please update the default value for this setting accordingly? thanks in advance :-)
mail-notification-5.4-92.git.9ae8768.fc26 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 26. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-6c05994fec
mail-notification-5.4-92.git.9ae8768.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-6c05994fec
mail-notification-5.4-92.git.9ae8768.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.