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On Wednesday 18 February 2004 00:54, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 February 2004 20:00, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > I think there was something like an conclusion that at the latest for k=
de
> > 4 kde will be independent of arts again and that it should be possible =
to
> > support different sound backends. I for one would be more than satisfied
> > with plain /dev/dsp support, since my soundcard features two channels.
> > One for xmms, the other one for all other sounds :-)
>
> Is not aRts the way KDE supports different sound backends?

Not really. It is the sound backend (of course depending on how you define=
=20
that word).

> IMO, what we really need is a new frontend for soundcards. Someone
> talked of gstreamer. Has it been finally selected as KDE4 sound system?

No. But the idea is to make it possible to use it instead of aRts in KDE 4.

> Future GNOME releases will be based on it, so (if kdemultimedia experts
> feels is a good product) supporting it would be a big step towards desktop
> integration.

Only because GNOME uses it we should not stop looking for alternatives.

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C'ya
        Matthias
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