After you set up a Sound Event in the GNOME sound control panel (G->Applications->Desktop Prefs->Sound), it can't be disabled. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to the GNOME Sound control panel (G->Applications->Desktop Prefs->Sound) 2. Select the sound events tab 3. Choose an event, click browse and choose a wav file 4. Clear the Sound File field and hit enter. Actual Results: After you select another sound, the path reappears. Expected Results: That event sound should be reset to not play a sound. Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.7-gentoo-r11) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r11 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fprefetch-loop-arrays -ftracer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fprefetch-loop-arrays -ftracer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox sfperms userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.ccccom.com http://128.213.5.34/gentoo/ http://gentoo.binarycompass.org" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X acl acpi acpi4linux alsa apm audiofile avi berkdb bonobo bzlib calendar caps cddb cdr chroot clanJavaScript clanVoice crypt cups curl curlwrappers dba dbx dga divx4linux dv dvd dvdr encode esd exif fam fdftk flac flash flatfile foomaticdb fs ftp gb gcj gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gmp gnome gnomedb gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile iconv ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib inifile ipv6 jabber java jbig jce jp2 jpeg kerberos ladcca lcms libg++ libwww lzw maildir mailwrapper mbox mcal md5sum mhash mikmod mmx mng mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozp3p mozsvg mpeg mpi music native ncurses nls nocd nomac odbc oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib png ppds python quicktime radeon readline recode sasl scanner sdl session skey slang slp sockets speex spell sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tidy tiff truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 video_cards_radeon wmf wxwin x86 xchattext xml2 xmlrpc xmms xsl xv xvid zlib"
reproduced, upstream problem http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14272
