aRts vs JACK

[Matthias Kretz]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Friday 21 February 2003 21:45, Neil Stevens wrote:
> On Friday February 21, 2003 12:34, Matthias Kretz wrote:
> > Actually the idea is to port everything to CSL for KDE 4 (as far as that
> > is possible). See attached README for some information on CSL.
> >
> > Ideally KDE should be able to use any soundserver...
>
> What exactly do we gain by moving all that's in aRts client-side?

I believe it should be optional. If you want to use another soundserver than 
aRts, KDE should still be able to output sound. That's a valid goal I believe 
- - how to reach it is a different question.
Moving "all that's in aRts" out of aRts is one option, but not necessary.

What we need, IMHO, is for the "basic" KDE to work without artsd. That means 
that things like the Notification System should use CSL for output. Then 
those parts of KDE wouldn't care if it's artsd or anotherd ;-)

The Multimedia apps in KDE (Noatun, Kaboodle, whatever) are not disallowed to 
use aRts... But I think it would be good (IMHO again) to be able to use them 
without a running artsd... it's about choice.

- -- 
C'ya
        Matthias
________________________________________________________
Matthias Kretz (Germany)                          <><
http://Vir.homeip.net/
MatthiasKretz at gmx.net, kretz at kde.org,
Matthias.Kretz at urz.uni-heidelberg.de
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQE+VpKGyg4WnCj6OIoRAlKqAKC9xbqo4FTuU9mP32YJYxJnnY1dhwCeJfh1
5w5ugIH69pFqaNAQIrK0Hds=
=67TQ
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----