Notification Sounds are Played Regardless of Setting.

[kyle-goodwin]

Describe the bug
A clear and concise description of what the bug is.

To Reproduce

1. Deselect both "Play Sound(s)" boxes in Setting
2. Get an notification.

Expected behavior
The application should make no noise when "Play sound(s)" are not selected.

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Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Debian 12
• Installation package: deb
• Version: 1.4.28

[jpurpleman]

I'm having the same issue on Linux Mint 23.1 on version 1.4.27

[jijojosephk]

The reason why you are facing this is, this app itself plays a sound when a notification comes. App can't access the settings shown above. With earlier version (v1) of teams, most people had a problem of sound not being played. So we added a feature to play a notification sound when there is a new notification. This is controlled by a config entry. But you can control from the menu itself.

Choose Disable Notifications Sound

This setting is also useful with new (v2) teams when you hear the sound twice. It's again because the new teams successfully plays the sound but the app does not know if the sound played, so it plays again. So nowadays most people hear 2 dings for each notification. 😄 I hope this will work for you.

[andreaippo]

The reason why you are facing this is, this app itself plays a sound when a notification comes. App can't access the settings shown above. With earlier version (v1) of teams, most people had a problem of sound not being played. So we added a feature to play a notification sound when there is a new notification. This is controlled by a config entry. But you can control from the menu itself.

Choose Disable Notifications Sound

This setting is also useful with new (v2) teams when you hear the sound twice. It's again because the new teams successfully plays the sound but the app does not know if the sound played, so it plays again. So nowadays most people hear 2 dings for each notification. 😄 I hope this will work for you.

Thanks so much for this, I was going crazy trying to understand why all of a sudden I was hearing twice the sound since v2.

I find Teams' ding very irritating, so 2x the daily dose won't be sustainable for me 😆

I wonder if it would be feasible to forcibly check that checkbox for the user when usage of v2 is detected, or remove that setting entirely if/when v2 becomes the default.

[kyle-goodwin]

This makes sense. I was pretty confused because these settings also stop the sound:

From what you're saying the lack of notifications at all stopped the app from playing it's own sound so that all makes sense.

For anyone else coming here looking to fix this. Pressing Alt brings up the menu shown and the location of the config file can be found in the config readme:
https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux/blob/develop/app/config/README.md

[IsmaelMartinez]

Pinning this as 2 dings must be annoying, and we can just always change the default value in the notification part, or try to find a different solution. I will have a think.