21 Nov
2003
21 Nov
'03
8:49 a.m.
I am not necessarily interested in defending Artsd since I myself also
do not care much for it. What I can do is though explain that artsd
supposedly does a lot of other things that the KDE ppl seem interested
in. In other words, chances for us convincing them to switch strictly to
Jack are nil (tried before, as I'm sure some of you did as well, and
pretty much got nowhere). This way at least we get to have JACK as the
backbone of all servers and have KDE still with its architectural
solution intact.
I think it's great news, considering the alternatives.
Ivica Ico Bukvic, composer & multimedia sculptor
http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico
-----Original Message-----
From: linux-audio-user-bounces(a)music.columbia.edu [mailto:linux-audio-
user-bounces(a)music.columbia.edu] On Behalf Of Daniel James
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 5:23 AM
To: A list for linux audio users
Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Great news for JACK & KDE
Seems like Arts already has a JACK output plugin
finished and ready
for the 3.3 KDE release!
Doesn't that mean you'll have two sound servers running at once?
Wouldn't it be better from an architectural point of view to make KDE
sound applications JACK clients? I realise that KDE developers may
have an emotional attachment to artsd, but in my experience I've
always had to disable it to do any audio work.
Anyone want to defend the use of artsd?
Daniel