Kdevelop and audio without KDE

dAgeCKo dagecko at free.fr
Sun Oct 7 14:02:39 BST 2012


Hello,

I'm a developer and I'm used to use kdevelop since many years (started 
to use it before its 1.0...). Anyway.

Unfortunately, since last year I am reconsidering to use it. I recently 
moved to qtcreator for the reasons below.

Indeed, I am facing several issues with kdevelop: instability (bug 
reported to debian and classified with the hope_it_will_be_solved_on
_the_next_release which is not programmed soon since wheezy got frozen)
and sound issues. Let me explain the latter one in this mail.

I play electric guitar and I plug my guitar into my sound card and I 
enjoy to use jack for this. Unfortunately, jack does not go well with 
pulse audio. So I uninstalled any pulseaudio components from my 
computer. With this way, I can use jack very well, without bugs.
Unfortunately, kdevelop uses the kdelibs which uses phonon for the audio 
stuff which uses pulse.

My question is: how far is it (easily) possible to have kdevelop 
installed on my computer without the audio stuff ? I know the question 
is more related to kdelibs, but since the question is about kdevelop, I 
am hoping someone who uses kdevelop already did that.

Note that I don't use KDE and my distribution is Debian.

And as a side question, how far the audio part of kdevelop is important 
in the development ?

Thanks.




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