Re: [linux-audio-user] New Sound Subsystem Needed For Qt4/KDE4

Arnold Krille writes: How do you know it doesn't need it? Because no one has required it before? Maybe it doesn't need it because it was never available to be used?

In point of fact the question, as someone in this thread said, is not whether KDE does X Y or Z at this particular time, but whether KDE has the vision and leadership to step up and forge progress toward a solution the wider community desparately needs. The problem won't go away. Sound management on the Linux platform is a shameful disaster, imho, today. It seems too many decision makers just don't regard audio as important. Well we are sensient beings, we humans. We (most of us) hear, see, smell, touch, and feel. Telling us that any one of these abilities is marginal may make your current task simpler, but it will not engage the wider population of children, casual users, amateurs -- or professionals. This thread has not come about because LAU desperately needs KDE. It has come about because the audio professionals in your Linux familiy see an opportunity to move the Linux environment forward in an area where it currently lags and languishes in indecision and neglect. KDE can choose to say "We're not interested," but that will only push the problem on for the next group which comes to a major rearchitecting. But, sooner or later, the issues will be addressed -- or this environment will wither. I'm convinced it's that fundamental--but that's another email. The only question for KDE is whether they want to be leaders or followers. Janina