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List:       kde-multimedia
Subject:    Re: KDE/aRts strategy meeting
From:       Neil Stevens <neil () qualityassistant ! com>
Date:       2002-06-26 0:32:16
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On Tuesday June 25, 2002 11:05, Tim Jansen wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 June 2002 11:24, Stefan Westerfeld wrote:
> > However, I've been thinking quite a bit how to go to the next level
> > ;). It seems that aRts is doing a lot of things these days, mainly -
> > sound server
> >  - media framework
> >  - synthesis/music creation
>
> IMVHO this could also be taken as an opportunity to look at one of the
> existing sound servers (like JACK(jackit.sf.net)) and maybe a different
> media framework (like a C++-wrapped gstreamer.sf.net).

Why?   What benefit does this give users of KDE to throw away something 
that works, rewrite media apps to support the replacement, and lose the 
benefits of C++ (at least for the aRts->GStreamer) switch?

It took three releases for people to stop complaining all the time about 
Noatun's sound (that is: aRts) output (1.0 in KDE 2.1, 1.2 in KDE 2.2, 2.0 
in KDE 3.0).  To go through that again without some mightly compelling 
reasons would be plain stupid.

- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil@qualityassistant.com
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding
because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they
have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher
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