From kde-devel Tue Aug 21 11:15:41 2001 From: Danie Roux Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:15:41 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: OT: Why was artsd written? X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=100092647305836 On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 02:01:00PM +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Hi Jonathan, others... > > The biggest disadvantage of Red Carpet (at least in #kde channel on IRC) is > that its using the "competing" desktop's technology. I personally have no > problem to use it - as we say "use the right tool for the right job" and IMHO > - it is the right tool, so the disadvantage is more "political" then > technical (which makes me wonder - we use libXML from gnome and no one seems > to have problem with it) - so it's up to the core-devel team to decide wether > to embrace it or not... esound works great, to me it just seems that artd replaces esound while adding nothing new. Why? Or am I wrong? It would be a great if KDE and GNOME shared as much as possible technologies.A KPart and Bonobo bridge/merge would be a great step forward for example. -- Danie Roux *shuffle* Adore Unix >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<