On Thursday 03 July 2003 17:59, Dmitry Suzdalev wrote: > Hope that, as Arnold said, kde4 will get rid of aRts.
I didn't say kde4 wont use aRts. Its just a maybe. Often people on kde-devel-lists propose to drop aRts without thinking of binary-compatibility. And a new multimediasystem for kde has to support a lot of features like sound-mixing, video, synchronisation, network-abilities (not just opening remote files but sending audio/video over network). It has to be BC between releases, be activly developed... And if we have a system that fulfills all of this things, there will still be people saying: "I just want to hear sound. I don't need a full media-framework." Not recognising that they also need a system mixing two sounds if the icq-client has a message while they are listening to music... Multimedia isn't that trivial. If you just want to listen to music, get yourself a radio... Arnold, who likes aRts and actively tries to improve it... -- Get my public-key from pgp.mit.edu or pgp.uni-mainz.de --- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a rm / -rf. Or ask your administrator to do so...
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