Only get to change the alert sound in Sound Themes in GNOME.

Okay, so I get sick and tired of my current sound theme, decide to go change it and go into Volume Control, since for no apparent reason the GNOME devs wanted to inflict more pain my putting the sound settings in there in 2.26.
I am greeted with this:
Where's the rest of the settings? If I can't change it in this box, where can I find my theme settings in gconf-editor?

z5rz wrote:
I have been trying to figure this out myself.. This may help somewhat.
The sound conf files are in /etc/sound/events. Each event, ie "login", shows a specific .wav file.
The .wav files are in /usr/share/sounds. I am assuming you just drop the sounds in here that you want to use and then change the sound file reference in the event files.
The interesting thing, is that the sound event files do not reference the actual sound file locations, just the name of the sound file. I have not idea what file is driving that.....
I haven't had time to goof around with this yet. I have been trying to find these for a while. All the references on the web, point to a "sound" program in gnome which is not in Arch. Some of the other distros, like Fedora have it in there.
Not in arch? That's not good. Maybe this should be a bug report, then?

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Go to the Apple symbol in the upper left of the screen click and scroll down to System Preferences>Sound>Sound Effects and choose your new alert.
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This is just one of each type of error. There's a lot of
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com.apple.message.carddav_accounts: 0
com.apple.message.disabled_accounts: 1
com.apple.message.enabled_accounts: 1
com.apple.message.exchange_accounts: 0
com.apple.message.ldap_accounts: 0
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com.apple.message.num_accounts: 1
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com.apple.message.signature2: com.apple.finder ||| 10.10.1 (10.10.1)
com.apple.message.signature3: 8E93ECBDE41620E7C47A27B67ABDD1B2
com.apple.message.result: YES
com.apple.message.summarize: YES
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com.apple.message.context-pointer: 0x0
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com.apple.message.bundle.id: com.apple.finder
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1    CoreUI                              CUIDraw + 205
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3    AppKit                              -[NSCompositeAppearance _callCoreUIWithBlock:] + 183
4    AppKit                              -[NSAppearance _drawInRect:context:options:] + 127
5    AppKit                              __NSRenderSpinningIndeterminateIndicator + 1222
6    AppKit                              -[NSProgressIndicator _setupSurfaceAndStartSpinning:] + 884
7    AppKit                              -[NSProgressIndicator startAnimation:] + 259
8    AppKit                              -[NSProgressIndicator _windowOcclusionChanged:] + 132
9    CoreFoundation                      __CFNOTIFICATIONCENTER_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_AN_OBSERVER__ + 12
10    CoreFoundation                      _CFXNotificationPost + 3140
11    Foundation                          -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:] + 66
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13    CoreGraphics                        (anonymous namespace)::notify_datagram_handler(unsigned int, CGSDatagramType, void*, unsigned long, void*) + 103
14    CoreGraphics                        CGSDatagramReadStream::dispatch_next_main_queue_datagram() + 280
15    CoreGraphics                        CGSDatagramReadStream::dispatch_next_datagram() + 42
16    CoreGraphics                        CGSDatagramReadStream::dispatch_datagrams() + 50
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22    CoreFoundation                      __CFRunLoopRun + 2159
23    CoreFoundation                      CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 296
24    HIToolbox                           RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 235
25    HIToolbox                           ReceiveNextEventCommon + 431
26    HIToolbox                           _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 71
27    AppKit                              _DPSNextEvent + 964
28    AppKit                              -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 194
29    AppKit                              -[NSApplication run] + 594
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com.apple.message.signature: Finder
com.apple.message.signature2: com.apple.finder ||| 10.10.1 (10.10.1)
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com.apple.message.value2: 22
com.apple.message.value3: 0
com.apple.message.value4: 0
com.apple.message.value5: 2
com.apple.message.value6: 1
com.apple.message.value7: 201
com.apple.message.result: YES
com.apple.message.summarize: YES
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