Comment 4 for bug 281044

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Luke Yelavich (themuso) wrote : Re: [Bug 281044] Re: [needs-packaging] Feature Freeze Exception: freedesktop-sound-theme 0.1

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:28:34PM EST, Steve Langasek wrote:
> what's the estimated disk footprint of this sound theme?

812KB

> wouldn't it be better to fix libcanberra so that it /does/ play sound
> events, instead of worrying about a fallback theme that it shouldn't be
> using anyway?

Looking at the code for libcanberra, this would in fact be very easy to do, and will also get rid of a nasty race condition where the freedesktop theme is sometimes favoured over the ubuntu theme, even though the ubuntu theme is set as the default.

I'll test this approach.