[pulseaudio-discuss] Why Gnome "System Sounds" is not a normal program?

[Yves (theYinYeti)]

Le 03/01/2012 00:07, Lennart Poettering a écrit :
> On Tue, 03.01.12 00:53, Roman Beslik (rabeslik at gmail.com) wrote:
>
>> As far as I understand, PulseAudio uses an interesting strategy of
>> routing sound to several sound cards. Instead of selecting a sound
>> card in each client, a sound card is selected in a general program,
>> e.g. "pavucontrol."
>>
>> There is an exception. The program "System Sounds" is always present
>> in "pavucontrol" but without a sound card list. Instead, I chose a
>> sound card for system sounds in "gnome-sound-applet." This is
>> inconvenient and even strange.
>
> Well, it's quite hard grabbing a volume slider that is visible only for
> a very short time, since event sounds tend to be<  1s in length...

Indeed! And I wish there was a more generic solution to this: I currently can’t 
reduce the volume of Pidgin’s notifications…

Happy New Year!