Disabling aRts in knotify

[Arnold Krille]

On Wednesday 18 February 2004 20:35, Russell Miller wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 February 2004 13:18, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> > To start with it is missing a stable maintainer, and has lots of open
> > bugs even critical and grave ones filled against it (check bugs.kde.org).
> I think aRts is necessary and I'm not for removing it, not in the least
> because klicker presently depends on one of the very unique features of it.
> I also understand why there is such a furor to deprecate it, I'm not very
> happy with it either under most circumstances, it does nothing but cause
> trouble.

Just for the record: I am the last to want kde not supporting arts. I just see 
a lot of rumors from people wanting kde without arts to be possible...

> I think KDE should always be able to use aRts, but I also think it should
> use other sound frameworks as necessary.  But that's dependent on aRts
> actually being maintained.  As it stands now is unacceptable.
> I guess someone's gotta do it.
> So.  I make no promises.  I have enough demands on my time already, and
> I've already tried to find a niche in this project several times to no
> avail.  But no one else seems to want to do it, and if we want to keep it,
> something will have to be done. So I'll go ahead and start trying to fix
> the grave bugs, and we'll go from there.

Cool!

Arnold

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