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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Disabling aRts in knotify
From:       Matthias Kretz <kretz () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-02-18 16:03:35
Message-ID: 200402181704.16519.kretz () kde ! org
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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 kde
> > 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 
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.

-- 
C'ya
        Matthias
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