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If anyone would help test and post feedback I would appreciate it 
andy-k: Good thinking - Iāll give the Touch login melody for kalimba a try.
I know that Iāve been banging this drum for a while, but nothing is really happening.
@d0od I could make an announcement but you have the audience. Would you write a few words about this on OMG? I know that itās the free-culture-showcase issue all over again (like you said, announcing on your site is for Ubuntu users and not photographers) but the users that needs to throw their āgeneral consensusā are there.
As Will writes above:
ā¦Iād suggest you start by getting a PPA up with the new sound theme in which people can install. If itās packaged correctly, and we can advise on that for sure, then we could add it to Universe and people can install it easily. If the general consensus is positive then we can look at switching the default over to it further down the roadā¦
I really feel that ācontestā is the wrong word. Itās more along the lines of participate and contribute to the project. Contest = prize, and thereās nothing to win here other than making Ubuntu better.
Anyway, it would be awesome if you could get:
I really like the idea of having a new system sound set in 18.04. I feel that it could help the global refresh. I tested the sound of all three set in my GNOME (with the communitheme theme installed and the Suru icon set), and I must say that I think that WoodenBeaver and KalimbaBeaver are the one that I think the most pleasing, but all three are great.
I think it really would help create a coherent experience.
Seems that no sound change the sound notification we have when we change the sound in gnome-shell, Iāll try to search if itās an hardcoded sound or if we have a way to change that easily !
Iāve been saying for years a new sound theme is needed . And that sounds are very underrated . Sounds can make an emotional attachment much stronger and does bring an air of recognition. Eg every one knows when a windows or Mac machine has been rebooted.
So I think itās a great decision.
PROJECT UPDATE!
Things are coming together - literally!
As an experiment weāre going to bundle the new system sounds with the community theme 
This has a few a advantages:
The Github page reads:
This sound theme is an accompaniment for the Ubuntu Communitheme. It combines sounds from the WoodenBeaver and Touch-Remix sound themes with an emphasis on making sound a usability feature instead of an annoyance. Weāre clipping out things like ābutton-pressedā and āservice-logoutā, and working towards shorter and less intrusive, more refined audio set.
The system notifications are played on a wooden percussion instrument to give the theme an african feeling. To make the theme feel light and responsive, the sounds are very short and thereās no reverb or delay added. The desktop-login sound is based on Jouni Helminenās awesome work for Ubuntu Touch.
For 10 years now, system sounds has been an achilles heel for me and Iāve been trying to get people involved 
and create something people would want to use. So Iām really excited about this change.
@merlijn-sebrechts is working on putting the pieces together, so expect to see this land in the not so distant future.
Great job! I for one, always liked system sounds.
There are very few people with such details. A really well thought-out topic and sound packages are fine!
Have the new system sounds been rolled out ?
I thought they had and i went to try them in the sound settings and now they have gone back to the old ones . Or Have imagined this ?
Yes, they are in the PPA so everything should work out of the box - except the login sound 
Thats what thought . Any idea how i get them back ?
Start by checking dconf-editor - is the right theme set?
Or you can add the manually.
Download the zip here and copy the the folder ind usr/share/sounds/
Instructions here: https://github.com/ubuntu/communitheme-sounds
thanks . I figured it out and got the login sound going too .
There will be a startup, shutdown sound ? It was something I missed till 16.04.
There is a startup sound. If youāve got the theme installed:
Type in a terminal gnome-session-properties. Itāll give you the list of starting applications. Click on āaddā, and type the following informations in the dialog shown :
Name: GNOME Login Sound
Command: /usr/bin/canberra-gtk-play --id="desktop-login" --description="GNOME Login"
Comment: Plays a sound whenever you log in
I havenāt got the 18.04 preview build installed. Will it be possible to try from GitHub ? Path, pleaseā¦
Edit :
Got it. Would it be good to have it a bit longer? Hopefully, there will be something for shutdown as well.
It is deliberately very short. I think a longer sound would quickly become annoying. I also left out the shutdown sound for the same reason.
What is youāre bug filled for? There is a start-up sound in that repo.
That was not a bug report. I didnāt know what else to use on Github. I was hoping to see startup sound than login sound. And for shutdown as well.Just a suggestion. 
Just had a moment with your lovely new sounds: getting the multiple tab warning when closing a FF window. A spontaneous satisfied sigh, really great job man.
I do like the new sounds .
My only criticism is the sound level . I can hardly hear them through my laptop speakers with 100% volume . The log in sound it definitely something I can distinguish and come to know as a Ubuntu Machine.
Has there been any other feed back re sound level ?
