What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great? (was Re: [linux-audio-dev] Best-performing Linux-friendly MIDI interfaces?)

Damon Chaplin damon at karuna.uklinux.net
Fri Jun 17 11:48:11 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 09:57 +0200, Alfons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 12:33:20AM +0100, Damon Chaplin wrote:
>  
> > Out of interest, what APIs do you think GNOME and KDE should provide for
> > sound?
> 
> None. Why should a window manager / desktop provide its own API for
> such things ? 

GNOME & KDE are complete development platforms, so they need to support
the development of audio applications.

I'm not saying they should develop new libraries. Just that they need to
standardize on particular APIs/libraries that all work together OK.

(I think both GNOME & KDE are considering switching audio APIs at the
moment, so now is a good time for the linux-audio community to get
involved.)

Damon





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