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Project moved to GitLab:
https://gitlab.com/dbazile/gaudible

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gaudible

Single-file program that makes notifications audible for Gnome.

Usage

# all filters
./gaudible.py -v

# only specific filters
./gaudible.py -v --filter calendar --filter calendar-legacy

# register specific sounds for specific filters
./gaudible.py \
    -v \
    --sound calendar:calendar.oga \
    --sound firefox:browser.oga   \
    --sound default-sound.oga        # sound for everything else

Why?

I got tired of missed meetings because Evolution doesn't play audio for appointment reminders by default.

This doesn't seem to have any traction, but maybe one day this becomes a thing...

How?

All this does is listen for common notification traffic patterns on DBus.

The only package dependencies are Python 3, PyGObject and pulseaudio-utils, all of which have a high chance of being installed by default on Fedora 30+.

Note: paplay, the default player, doesn't support MP3/MP4 playback so either conversion or a different player is needed

Reference

# see gdbus usage
cat test.py

# listen for dbus messages
dbus-monitor 'type=method_call, interface=org.gtk.Notifications, member=AddNotification' \
             'type=method_call, interface=org.freedesktop.Notifications, member=Notify'

# identify dbus unique addresses
qdbus

# describe dbus service methods
qdbus org.gtk.Notifications /org/gtk/Notifications