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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: ANNOUNCE: HEAD is open for development again
From:       Scott Wheeler <wheeler () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-08-13 23:41:44
Message-ID: 200408140141.44243.wheeler () kde ! org
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On Saturday 14 August 2004 1:35, Charles Samuels wrote:
> > I'd much rather like 100% of the users getting something that won't
> > effectively make non-Linux unsupported AND does not suck. I'm not sure 
> > 100% of the Linux users would like KDE suddenly being dependent on ALSA's
> > api/abi-'stability' either.
> 
> Sorry Michael, if the kernel doesn't do the mixing, it's going to suck for 
> 100% of our users. This has been proven time and time again by all the 
> mixers that have been attempted. I want something that works well for almost 
> everyone, and if the other 10% want their system work as well as it does on 
> Linux, then they can fix their kernels to support mixing.

Ironically -- BSD has supported software mixing (IIRC limited to two channels, 
but it's a start) for a while already.

-Scott
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