> Well, KDE is suppoed to cover more than just linux In theory, yes, but has anyone seen KDE running on Solaris or anything like that? All the non-Linux platforms running free software desktops that I've seen have had GNOME - BSDs users, for example. Sun even built SUSE with a GNOME interface for its (cough...) 'Java Desktop'. I guess artsd could be retained for legacy use, but with ALSA 1.0 just around the corner, what's any Linux distributions excuse for not making it the default? And we know that artsd won't be much use until the non-KDE applications support it, which isn't very likely. Cheers Daniel