[Xastir] Xastir sound files missing..

[David Ranch]

Hey Tom,

Thanks for the reply

> Those files have always been a separate zipfile on sourceforge, and 
> have never been in CVS. I am thinking a separate git project 
> associated with the Xastir organization is the right approach. 

Oh.. interesting and digging around for a while, I found it in a rather 
hidden place on sf.net

https://sourceforge.net/projects/xastir/files/xastir-miscellaneous/General/xastir-sounds.tgz/download

Ay specific reason for WHY this is done this way?  Since these files are 
in a different archive, most distributions aren't including it, etc.  I 
think it would be cleaner to get it into the main archive and would only 
add 850Kbytes of space.   Btw, it seems the above xastir-sounds.tgz is 
missing the thunder.wav file but David's archives had some alternative ones:

  unzip -t Xastir_Sounds.zip
Archive:  Xastir_Sounds.zip
     testing: Xastir_Sounds/           OK
     testing: Xastir_Sounds/bandopen.wav   OK
     testing: Xastir_Sounds/newbulletin.wav   OK
     testing: Xastir_Sounds/newmessage.wav   OK
     testing: Xastir_Sounds/newstation.wav   OK
     testing: Xastir_Sounds/proxwarn.wav   OK
     testing: Xastir_Sounds/thunder-01.wav   OK
     testing: Xastir_Sounds/thunder-02.wav   OK
     testing: Xastir_Sounds/thunder-03.wav   OK
No errors detected in compressed data of Xastir_Sounds.zip.


> Paths in Xastir are *always* relative to the Xastir share directory.  You
> can't specify absolute paths in any of Xastir's config (maps, symbols, sounds,
> etc.)
>
> The behavior you describe is what's expected.  Put your sounds files in
> /usr/share/xastir/sounds, and then tell Xastir what file you want played
> in the Audio Alarms config --- using just the file name, not the full path.

Ok.  I'm just used to most programs allowing to any absolute paths and 
not relative ones.

--David
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