From kde-multimedia  Thu Nov 25 11:27:50 2004
From: Mark Kretschmann <markey () web ! de>
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 11:27:50 +0000
To: kde-multimedia
Subject: Re: Polypaudio, discussion on gnome-devel
Message-Id: <200411251353.10488.markey () web ! de>
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On Thursday 25 November 2004 11:04, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> The point is there is no reason to have a soundserver like polypaudio or
> artsd if  you are only playing audio locally, but being unix desktops we
> should also support network transparency.

100% agreed. Sound servers are not needed for the majority of users. Today 
there's dmix and similar native mixing solutions, which do not require 
running a clunky daemon for something as basic as audio mixing.

Users may choose to run a sound server if they really need it, but for the 
most common usage patterns it's just unnecessary bloat.

--Mark
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