[linux-audio-user] Re: What parts of Linux audio simply suck ?

[Lee Revell]

On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 19:20 +0200, Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen  wrote:
> artsd because it currently on the machine I'm working with right now
> continouisly tries to start. When I kill it, it starts again, for
> mysterious reasons, only seconds later. Sometimes, it is even owned by
> root, and I have to kill it as root. Even that doesnt help, it starts
> again and again and again. 

This is a KDE problem.  I have found that if you don't use KDE,
launching some KDE apps (like kmix) will cause 5 or 6 stupid KDE daemons
to be started, which don't die when you exit the program, and have to be
killed manually.

KDE just seems to be terminally bloated due to excessive OO-ness.

Lee