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Subject: Re: Some ideas for the aRts-replacement
From: Koos Vriezen <koos.vriezen () xs4all ! nl>
Date: 2004-02-20 1:09:40
Message-ID: 20040220010940.GC34849 () xs4all ! nl
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On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 01:32:03AM +0100, Scott Wheeler wrote:
> On Friday 20 February 2004 1:15, Koos Vriezen wrote:
> > I hope this discussion is converging to having a small sound server,
> > used by all KDE apps (with no linking penalties, lazy initialization etc).
> > Since arts already can use ESD, MAS, ALSA as sound server, we already have
> > this Knotify should use a sound server (as defined above) and not a media
> > framework IHMO. So what should be done is writing a sound server for KDE
> > first.
>
> That doesn't make any sense -- why would we write another sound server?
Simply using ESD would be a start..actually a small wrapper that plugins ESD
and/or Jack, MAS etc.
Maintaining this is in no way comparable with maintaining arts, no?
> > Next change arts to use it, post patches to gstreamer/mplayer/xine to use it
> > too. And next everybody is happy because we have a light sound server, arts
> > applications still work and development on gstreamer/whatever can
> > continue :-)
>
> Which basically means we'd be where we are now, but we'd have introduced
> another layer and something else for us to do a bad job of maintaining.
Not quite, knotify doesn't depend on arts (was the subject of the
original posting :)
Koos
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