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On Sunday 2004 September 05 08:12 pm, Scott Wheeler wrote:
> And really -- I think aside from Noatun (amaroK has its own backend layer
> that will likely stay) it covers pretty much every app in CVS since amaroK
> and Noatun are the only two things that do anything special with the soun=
d.
> =A0So, yeah, it actually does solve most of the problems.
>
> I'd still like to have a recommended low level API for people that need
> such because I'd like to have that offered as part of our "platform", but=
 I
> was in the minority on that.

As I figure, the only thing it solves is that it gives us a simple API.  Th=
e=20
fact is that it's a bloated simple API because of the plugins.

As amaroK insists on supporting every system out there, that doesn't matter=
=2E=20
Noatun will require a specific API (probably NMM).

In other words KDE will eventually require a single API, so this entire=20
pluggable thing will only result in bloat.

Thus, it doesn't solve any problem that can't be solved much more simply. A=
nd=20
it creates the problem of fragmentation.  We'll either have a million syste=
ms=20
that all have few features, or we'll have applications each of which=20
requiring a system of their own.

In other words, I'm strongly opposed to this kdemm stuff, and I highly desi=
re=20
that we choose a system and make it exclusively used by KDE (what amaroK do=
es=20
internally is its own business).

I personally like NMM the most, but that doesn't matter as long as we just=
=20
pick one.

=2DCharles

=2D-=20
Charles Samuels <charles@kde.org>
 Don't changes horses in the middle of an apocalypse!

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