From kde-multimedia Sun Feb 23 00:02:24 2003 From: Kai Vehmanen Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 00:02:24 +0000 To: kde-multimedia Subject: Re: aRts vs JACK X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-multimedia&m=104595878804295 On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Neil Stevens wrote: >> well as other lad projects), I'd really like to welcome you, the KDE >> multimedia people, to join these projects. There's plenty of work for > You wrote that a lot more diplomatically than I would have. Yes, if > someone wants linux-specific audio, he should join the existing linux > audio efforts. KDE is not the place for them. :) Point taken. Yes, these projects are Linux centric, but not necessarily Linux only. For instance there has been some work on porting JACK to Solaris. OSS driver for JACK could also be implemented (I think that would cover most of the KDE platforms). I think it's vital that we'd have people around on linux-audio-dev (and other related forums) that kept the desktop use perspective (i.e. media players (audio _and_ video), simple audio output (notifiers), games, etc) and also platform independence, on the table when discussing audio platform issues. Of course, if all the participants are interested primarily in pro-audio uses, well that's what you get as a result. Sure you could pretend to be able to solve problems for other areas of use, but in reality you can't do good design work without domain knowledge. And that's what you KDE (and GNOME) people have lots and lots of. -- http://www.eca.cx Audio software for Linux! _______________________________________________ kde-multimedia mailing list kde-multimedia@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-multimedia