On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 14:39 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 12:28 -0600, Dave Price wrote: > > Nigel, > > > > Yes, I am using KDE. I have now read the alsactl man page, and run (as > > sudo ) 'alsactl store' > > Why is KDE so stupid? More precisely: Why doesn't KDE just exec "alsactl store" to save its settings, rather than its own mysterious KDE-specific method? IMHO this illustrates a key difference in the Gnome/KDE philosophy where Gnome is clearly superior. When confronted with a problem like saving mixer settings the KDE people seem to go for whatever is easiest to get working, while the Gnome people will wait for a *correct* solution, even if it means KDE gets $FOO feature before them. Any software engineer worth their salt will tell you that the easiest cheapest solution is almost always WRONG. Lee
