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From IRC:

hey, around? I noticed that changing sound theme setting in GSettings affects canberra-gtk-play as expected, but doesn't affect things that use libcanberra directly, eg. pycanberra: It's still looking for the freedesktop theme according to strace. any idea why?
well, only canberra-gtk binds to gsettings
ah, okay, so I need to manually specify the theme in pycanberra apps?
yeah, i fear
okay, thanks
the idea is basically that for canberra-gtk they data comes from gsettings, but for a (theoretic) canberra-kde it comes from some kde specific source

I suggest that pycanberra will add the code to read the configured sound theme from gsettings and use it. I don't know much about ctypes or how to fix it myself, but here's some of the work:

#put that in your imports area at the top
try:
    from gi.repository import Gio
    has_gio = True
except ImportError:
    has_gio = False

#And this when you actually play the sounds or create the Canberra object (your choice)
if has_gio:
    settings = Gio.Settings.new('org.gnome.desktop.sound')
    theme = settings.get_string('theme-name')

#Insert magic to actually tell libcanberra to use the theme you found here