On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 02:16 +0200, Joachim Schiele wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 June 2005 01:59, Jens M Andreasen wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 00:10 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote:
> > > > > (And remember GNOME & KDE are multi-platform - so I don't
> > > > > think GNOME & KDE apps can use ALSA directly.)
> > > >
> > > > They don't have to use ALSA directly, but they can use a
> > > > common library which uses ALSA directly like polypaudio.
> > >
> > > That's true. KDE also runs on other operating systems like BSD
> > > or even Win, so they still need an abstraction like
> > > polypaudio, gstreamer or portmidi, and this one needs to be
> > > prepared for all other supported platforms.
> >
> > Maybe I am stupid and therefore I have to ask: What is the rationale for
> > running KDE (or Gnome?) in an MS Win environment?
>
> What is the rationale for doing anything? Fun? Sex? Ego? Evolution? Nonsense?
> It's up2you!
>
No, but honestly. I have friends successfully running their DAW under
Win.
Why should they change from the MS window-manager to KDE? To Gnome?
(and given the choices you mention above, I would go for 'sex')
> > > Best regards
> > >
> > >
> > > ce
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