On Tuesday 12 September 2006 11:14, Richard Fish wrote: > > As in compiling kdelibs with the arts use flag and then disabling arts in > > kcontrol? Or as in actually enabling the arts use flag globally and using > > arts? :O > > The latter... > > > I'll have to say I'm a bit curious about how you get to the conclusion > > that the latter would be better than the former... > > ...well I was playing with this last week. Without arts enabled in > kcontrol, and KDE set to use an external player, I recall having a > noticable delay between when a dialog appeared or other event occurred > and when the sound would play. With arts enabled and playing sounds > through it, the sounds played almost immediately. > > I could be incorrect on this though, as I was having problems with > notifications playing in general, even through artsd (which I > eventually traced to having artsplugin-xine installed _without_ > artsplugin-audiofile, which caused artsd to want to play all audio > through xine plugins, and fail with "unable to open file" more often > than not). Others are welcome to share their experiences with > external players and KDE notifications. ;-)
Thanks for clarification. :) IIRC KDE notifications didn't work at all if I didn't compile kdelibs with the arts use flag. Anyhow, my current approach is to compile kde-base/kdelibs with the arts use flag and everything else without it. In kcontrol in "Sound & Multimedia" -> "Sound system" I have disabled the sound system and in "Sound & Multimedia" -> "System Notifications" -> "Player Settings" I have chosen /usr/bin/playsound as external player. I at least haven't noticed any delays. $ equery belongs playsound [ Searching for file(s) playsound in *... ] media-libs/sdl-sound-1.0.1-r1 (/usr/bin/playsound) YMMV -- Bo Andresen
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