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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 61686] kaboodle doesn't download files that arts can't stream
From:       Charles Samuels <charles () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-07-26 6:15:25
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------- Additional Comments From charles@kde.org  2003-07-26 08:15 -------
Subject: Re:  kaboodle doesn't download files that arts can't stream

On Friday 25 July 2003 11:12, you wrote:
> Yup, and the bug is that we stuck ourselves with a sound system whose
> author distanced himself from KDE.
>  
> Had we used KIO in kdemultimedia's backend from the start, this wouldn't be
> a problem.

Well, it's not even that; it's unreasonable to assume that all playobjects 
even can be streamed, and the KIO api (currently) deprecates the blocking API 
(NetAccess), which means that the client itself needs to do the downloading 
if the playobject can't, as arts is by nature blocking.

When I say that it's unreasonable for playobjects to stream, I mean that some 
audio formats by their very nature cannot be streamed, tracker files for 
example.

It's still a bug, and it's only visible in Kaboodle...

- -Charles
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