On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 18:25 +0100, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > Well, I'm using KDE and plan on sticking with it, so this > > is of interest to me and I expect others getting started on > > linux/audio. > > Have fun: you'll know confusing things :) . > > > Aren't Gnome and KDE working to be "compatible" ie apps in > > one run in the other? > > Yeah, freedesktop.org is somehow a common base both try to > use. > > Worse: Because there's no common audio layer in linux, I guess > that Gnome and KDE will start using a common soundserver, but > then again it's again a KDE/Gnome only solution. I think fd.o hosts MAS (http://www.mediaapplicationserver.net/) That would cover anything using Xorg. I doubt there will ever be "coreaudio" style linux audio api. But isn't this all dealt with by jackd? I mean couldn't any application written for jackd run on different audio drivers? I'm not a programmer, but I thought jackd already serves as a "common audio layer". i.e. `alsa' `coreaudio' `dummy' `oss' or `portaudio' support is there. -ry -- Ryan Gallagher <ruinaudio@xxxxxxxxxxx>
