aRts vs JACK

[Kai Vehmanen]

On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Neil Stevens wrote:

>> well as other lad projects), I'd really like to welcome you, the KDE
>> multimedia people, to join these projects. There's plenty of work for
> You wrote that a lot more diplomatically than I would have.  Yes, if 
> someone wants linux-specific audio, he should join the existing linux 
> audio efforts.  KDE is not the place for them.

:) Point taken. Yes, these projects are Linux centric, but not necessarily
Linux only. For instance there has been some work on porting JACK to
Solaris. OSS driver for JACK could also be implemented (I think that would
cover most of the KDE platforms).

I think it's vital that we'd have people around on linux-audio-dev (and
other related forums) that kept the desktop use perspective (i.e. media
players (audio _and_ video), simple audio output (notifiers), games, etc)
and also platform independence, on the table when discussing audio 
platform issues.

Of course, if all the participants are interested primarily in pro-audio
uses, well that's what you get as a result. Sure you could pretend to be
able to solve problems for other areas of use, but in reality you can't do
good design work without domain knowledge. And that's what you KDE (and
GNOME) people have lots and lots of.

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