From kde-multimedia Tue Aug 05 22:00:34 2003 From: Morten Hustveit Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 22:00:34 +0000 To: kde-multimedia Subject: Re: Proposal for KDE media interface X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-multimedia&m=106012092911134 > On Tuesday August 05, 2003 02:06, Morten Hustveit wrote: > > The interface is documented at > > . I'll delay > > implementation until you people tell me what's wrong with the interface. On Tuesday 05 August 2003 23:10, Neil Stevens wrote: > I suggest you wait until the KDE 4 run up begins, when we decide what media > system to use. One purpose of this API is to make this the user's decision. Also, I don't see why we should wait until the next major release, as adding a new interface does not break binary compatibility. > Arts and our supporting libraries (libartskde, KMediaPlayer) are not going > anywhere, so there's no sense in duplicating them right now. I'm not suggesting to make aRts vanish; I'm suggesting to deprecate its use. New KDE applications will use the new interface, old applications will be ported whenever the maintainers feel like it, and by KDE 4.0 the aRts dependency will be removed. KMediaPlayer would obviously simply be ported to use the new interface rather than aRts directly. The sense lies in preventing new applications from using a soon-to-be-deprecated interface (aRts). Not having a documented interface probably also hurts development. Also, people can start using alternative backends /now/ (in the applications supporting this), rather than waiting for KDE 4, at the small cost of a slightly increased library size. Please don't arbitrarily send carbon copies. _______________________________________________ kde-multimedia mailing list kde-multimedia@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-multimedia