On Wednesday 18 February 2004 20:25, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 February 2004 18:37, Scott Wheeler wrote:
> > Responding to two things in one here...
> >
> > On Wednesday 18 February 2004 0:54, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> > > > I for one would be more than satisfied with plain /dev/dsp support,
> > > > since my soundcard features two channels.
> >
> > That's a step backwards for multimedia on the UNIX desktop.  On the one
> > hand I'm all about things that work and being pragmatic, but having the
> > desktop deal with the raw devices is not the way to go.
>
> Well, IOW I don't need it, many other people don't need it, it adds a
> daemon which can crash while simply playing audio, it needs cpu power, it
> doesn't improve the sound quality, it doesn't add anything for me.
>
> I mean almost everything in KDE is plugin-based, I think it must be
> possible to make the kde sound backend plugin-based too. One plugin for
> arts, one for OSS, one for ALSA, one for gstreamer, one for MAS, ....

and one for windows. We have already replaced arts with a simple native win32 
kaudioplayer implementation, which is used already by knotify and games. 
See http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=107594291126511&w=2 for more 
infos. 

Just a little note. 


Ralf