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sees gstreamer; in that gnome applications use settings from
~/.gconf/system/gstreamer/0.10/ to determine which sound device or
services to use, whereas KDE applications have a more useful mechanism
achieved via phonon priority list. Gstreamer applications just lockup
or fail when a device is busy -- phonon does the right thing, and
notifies you via GUI of what it is doing in case of a failure, and
then automatically selects the next device in the priority list. Thus
my statement "a more evolved and workable alternative to gstreamer."

The only place gstreamer is explicitly seen to the KDE user is under
System Settings->Multimedia->Backend where Xine is the preferred
backend and Gstreamer is the secondary/fallback alternative.

-- Niels
http://nielsmayer.com