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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: kwmsound anyone?
From:       Matthias Ettrich <ettrich () troll ! no>
Date:       1999-11-06 22:26:57
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On Sat, 06 Nov 1999, Christian Esken wrote:
> Am Sam, 06 Nov 1999 schrieb Matthias Ettrich:
> > kwmsound (in kdebase/kwmmodules/kwmsound) shouldn't be a kwm module any more.
> > 
> > Instead, it should be using dcop and be renamed to kdesounds. Don't know
> > whether it should still use KAudio or directly talk to aRts, though. (Part of
> > the job is to find that out ;-)
> 
> It will use KAudioPlayer. This class replaces KAudio class in the future.
> KAudioPlayer will most likely use DCOP, but this is in the evaluation.
> For now I can make a KAudioPlayer implementation, that does nothing
> at the moment.
> 
> 
> > 
> > In addition, we should add a class to KDESounds to libkdecore. Actually, more a
> > namespace than a class, I guess.  It's probably sufficient to have a static
> > function in there:
> > 
> >      void play( const QString& );
> >
> > play() should basically issue a dcop-send to KDESounds.
> 
> This is precisely what we decided on KDE Two - just the class is called
> KAudioPlayer.

So KAudioPlayer will be used for both, playing sound files via aRts as well as
playing "logical" sound events?

> 
> 
> > Anybody interested in implementing it? It's not much work, but maybe someone
> > was thinking "hmmm... I would like to do something but have no idea what. Maybe
> > something that teaches me DCOP... hmmm.... and multimedia" ? :-)
> 
> Sounds like a task for me

great.

  Matthias

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