17 Jun
2005
17 Jun
'05
11:24 a.m.
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 12:48:11PM +0100, Damon Chaplin wrote:
1. You don't need GNOME or KDE support to develop audio applications any
more than you need their support for accessing files, the network, the
display or whatever. So they should remain neutral on this matter.
2. Any application that can run only under a particular window manager
or that depends on facilities from a particular desktop is IMHO just
broken. The choice of window manager / desktop belongs to the user,
not the developer.
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:
GNOME & KDE are complete development platforms, so they need to support
the development of audio applications. 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 ? (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.)
If everybody would just use ALSA for general use, and JACK for serious
music / sound applications, that would be fine. The last thing we need
is one more 'sound server / daemon'. (*)
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FA
(*)<rantmode>
A few days ago I kicked up Rosegarden again to see if it could be useful
for the project I was starting. It wasn't so I terminated it, only to
find out later that there were still a number of KDE applications running,
including a sound daemon, blocking access to all others. Grrr.
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