a minor nit 1.94

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Jud Craft at 04/12/08 01:21 did gyre and gimble:
> Right, but there won't be a downstream packager for the OSX and Win
> versions, right?
> 
> And even so, there's always the chance that a Windows or Mac user
> might be interested in how that GStreamer or QuickTime backend sound.
> Especially if certain features (cross-fading, replay-gain, etc) ever
> become specific to a certain backend.
> 
> (Don't mean to derail, I just think it's a valid concern.)

One of the key features of Phonon is that it doesn't require each 
application to implement configs for it.

It's meant to centralise things and make KDE apps (or rather Qt although 
I think that is becoming increasingly blured with the xine backend being 
more KDE than Qt which is why I'm still a little saddened that the 
gstreamer backend was not nurtured more initially, but that's another 
story - and I may be out of date as I've fallen behind here recently) 
more consistant.

Remember when each and every app on your desktop had it's own "sound 
preferences" dialog? This is insane from a usability perspective. users 
have to learn new paradigms and systems for every application. With 
technologies like pulseaudio and phonon this is changing. You go to one 
place with one GUI to make these kind of changes. This is similar to 
Core Audio on OSX.

It's a bit of a cultural shift, but it's definitely better for general 
UI in the long term.

Col

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