> But this is all pretty much limited to applications that link directly to
> arts, which aren't that many. I think this is much less of an issue than
> e.g. the use of libart_lgpl, which for some reason is being linked in for
> every possible KDE application.

Konqueror dlopens konq_sound which uses aRts though in the iconview; which is 
very slow already already (1/3rd of a second here; it's a pause and not 
during the intial startup phase, though).

And we do run artsd and knotify on startup, of course.