Dan Armak posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sat, 02 Jul 2005 15:33:34 +0300:
> At least arts is going away with kde 3.x :-) I read the rumors on that about a year ago, I'd guess, and have been trying to keep up with it. Unfortunately as I've been the de facto point man on a couple of newsgroups (one aka the Gentoo amd64 list, tho there are Gentoo KDE devs there now), because I just seemed to know more about it than anyone else, I've heard essentially /nothing/ on it since then. Back then, there wasn't even a solid proposal as to what would replace ARTS' various functions. The best solution seemed to be the desktop.org common solution, only nobody knew what it would look like or when that would be ready for practical deployment (if ever) either. gstreamer and other possible partial solutions came up as well. Just plain ALSA's nice, but Linux-only, so that doesn't work to well. JACK's nice and certainly cures the latency issues so common in ARTS and other sound daemons of the era, but it has its own issues -- not /enough/ latency for smooth play on some kernels and in some instances. So... what has happened since then, where are we now in the journey, does whatever look to be ready for KDE's use, and how many more KDE 3.x releases before KDE 4.0 comes out? (Last year they were talking a quick 3.4 and then buckling down for 4.0, but now I read about a 3.5 around the corner. More?) I know Plasma (the union of kdedesktop and kicker) sounds fun! I DID chance to catch some blog entries on it. If there are any informative URLs I've missed, either about KDE 4.0 sound, or the current KDE roadmap, pointing me to those will be fine. The latest release plan I see is still for 3.4.0 and dated from late last year! It's still talking about 3.4 being the last feature release of the 3.x series, but as I said, I now see talk of a 3.5 before 4.0. At least Qt-4.0 is out now, so KDE-4.0, based on it, shouldn't be /too/ far away. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
