On 28.11.2010 11:47, Χρήστος Κώτσαρης wrote: > Regarding phonon being dropped, after some googling it seems i was mistaken, > what i had read was that Qt framework is dropping phonon, not KDE. But still, > i believe it would be sane to drop phonon in KDE too and replace it with > Pulseaudio, it is the best choice. No need for 2 sound servers when one could > do the trick. > > Plus, in case someone says Phonon can switch sound cards without the app > restarting, everytime i try it Amarok and others crash, so yes, it needs > restarting... Well Qt (or Nokia if you like) does not drop phonon completly, but Qt will switch to a native framework called Qt-Multimedia. There no change in functionality. Phonon isn't a sound or video playback backend, it's just an abstraction layer using other engine like vlc or xine or pulseaudio
