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List:       kde-multimedia
Subject:    Re: State of the Noatun
From:       Charles Samuels <charles () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-12-01 20:30:45
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On fredag 01 desember 2000, 02:10 am, Stefan Westerfeld wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 07:55:04PM -0800, Charles Samuels wrote:
> > Left to be done for a KDE2.1 release
> >
> > [...]
> > 3) Starting artsd when unavailable on startup, and restarting artsd if it
> > should disappear while Noatun is running (maybe even during playback).  
> > Or, at least an informative error message, instead of a crash, when
> > problems occur.
>
> I would only require that it starts artsd on startup if it can't connect
> to it (which is easy to do).
>
> For everything else, it is better to fix aRts to crash less, rather than
> adding huge pieces of crash-tolerance-logic to noatun. You also don't write
> apps in a way that the X11 server can crash (and gets restarted) at any
> time.
I've had arts crash on me for no reason a few times... but this can be 
ignored.

>
> > [... KDE2.2: ...]
> > About the configuration of effects: ugh :)  I'll procrastinate it as much
> > as possible.
>
> Try artscontrol -> View -> FreeVerb and have a look at the code for it
> before you start. It's not exactly using .arts files to specify the effect
> gui right now, but at least it only uses Arts::Widget's, which you can also
> create with ..arts files. And it does change notifications between the
> poti's and the effect parameters, too.
I don't use HEAD yet, so this isn't the best time.  I have although, used it 
once, and am pleased to see "Widget" arts-objects.

-Charles

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