On June 2, 2005 01:04 pm, Andreas Karlsson wrote: > I don╢t want to start a flamewar here but I don╢t see the reason > why KDE insists on using arts. Why not just route all sounds > through alsa? Or has it to do with some cards limitations for > harwaremixing?
because there are more platforms than just linux and not all the platforms have ALSA. There are more reasons than that but this is the most obvious. Arts was single gateway to whatever soundsystem your OS provides for entire KDE in contrast to each application being "smart enough" to recognize what and how to use with each OS. -- Dmitry Makovey Web Systems Administrator Athabasca University (780) 675-6245
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