Default "Sound" behavior

[TylerLeonhardt]

Some options:

1. whatever the default sound is for that platform (if the platform supports sound)
2. no sound at all

Number 1 means we'd support a -Silent switch parameter
Number 2 means we'd support a -Sound $someStr parameter

I think we should do number 1 first and then add number 2 so that users can specify their own sound files

[Windos]

I'm keen on #1 and then #2 as a bonus. Do all platforms support sounds (both preset and custom i.e. path to an MP3/wav?)

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[TylerLeonhardt]

It looks like linux supports it as a hint

http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/0.9/x344.html

 "sound-file"     | string     |   The path to a sound file to play when the notification pops up.    

looks like there's no default sound though. Maybe for linux, no sound is a good default... and then we can allow users to specify the sound file which should work cross-plat.

There's some work I'll have to do in PSNotifySend to support this.

[markwragg]

MacNotify works by looking in all the default directories for sounds and then populating the parameter set dynamically with the names of the files. This is what makes the module PowerShell Core specific as I think the functionality to do so via a class is core specific.

While figuring out how to do it I noticed there was an open issue to add the technique to the documentation, which I then did, so the way I'm using it in MacNotify is also the documented example: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_functions_advanced_parameters?view=powershell-6#dynamic-validateset-values

[steviecoaster]

So I've done a fair bit of playing with this today. It looks like all the major distros (CentOS,Ubuntu,Debian,Fedora) have a paplay binary which can play any filetype.

Testing againt what's it /usr/share/sounds/gnome/default/alerts on each system yielded 100% success rate in hearing the audio.

Armed with that data, I intend to stream tonight on a new branch which adds the -Sound parameter to Send-OSNotification.

[TylerLeonhardt]

I did the work in PSNotifySend to expose a -SoundFile so that should be ready :)

[TylerLeonhardt]

Also, I noticed that notify-send has a --category (which is exposed in PSNotifySend) that gives you a bunch of sounds for different notification types:

"device","device.added","device.error","device.removed",
        "email","email.arrived","email.bounced",
        "im","im.error","im.received",
        "network","network.connected","network.disconnected","network.error",
        "presence","presence.offline","presence.online",
        "transfer","transfer.complete","transfer.error"

and I'm wondering if that's useful here... not quite sure.