Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] aRts, KDE - say it ain't so! [it ain't]
From: Roger Larsson (roger.larsson_AT_skelleftea.mail.telia.com)
Date: ma loka 11 1999 - 19:54:59 EDT
Hi all,
The only part of aRts plugin does not care about what window system
you use.
But to be able to connect the plugins in a nice and easy way
there is a GUI written in and using KDE.
A few notes from arts one year history page:
http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/~arts/doc/1styear/index.html
"Besides other reasons, that was the motive why CORBA came into aRts. It
would allow the synthesizer to simply do its work, alone, independent
from the
toolkit. Anyone who liked to do something with the synthesizer then
could write a
GUI in his/her favourite programming language, or a scriping system, or
whatever
else."
"And others could develop a Gnome frontend parallely - until now there
just never
happened to be someone who did that..."
Happy porting/developing!
BTW, we should take a good look into this interface IMHO.
/RogerL
Paul Barton-Davis wrote:
>
> > abilities are leagues ahead of anything yet found on Unix. It will
> > offer capabilities to KDE that have so far been found only on OSes
> > like Windows, BeOS, etc.
>
> yes, aRts is great but .... sigh - "offer capabilities to KDE"
>
> Windows, for all its faults, is an OS. BeOS is an OS. KDE is not an
> OS! what is anyone doing "offering capabilities" to the bloody desktop
> architecture. this is *insane*.
>
> the work that Stefan has done on aRts is wonderful, but this idea of
> there being a desktop, rather than an OS, that offers these
> capabilities is a dangerous path, and it fractures our community. I am
> not going to run KDE or GNOME for the foreseeable future, and anyone
> who thinks that the way forward is to build functions into either of
> these systems that are not part of the kernel or a standalone program
> is not my friend.
>
> --p
--The Internet interprets Windows as damage, and routes around it.
Roger Larsson Skellefteċ Sweden
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