Richard Fish wrote: > On 9/12/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tuesday 12 September 2006 09:37, Richard Fish wrote: >> > That said, arts is still useful for KDE 3.5 if you want sound >> > notifications for error popups, login/logout events, etc, as it makes >> > notifications perform much much better IME. >> >> As in compiling kdelibs with the arts use flag and then disabling >> arts in >> kcontrol? Or as in actually enabling the arts use flag globally and >> using >> arts? :O > > The latter... > >> I'll have to say I'm a bit curious about how you get to the >> conclusion that >> the latter would be better than the former... > > ...well I was playing with this last week. Without arts enabled in > kcontrol, and KDE set to use an external player, I recall having a > noticable delay between when a dialog appeared or other event occurred > and when the sound would play. With arts enabled and playing sounds > through it, the sounds played almost immediately. > > I could be incorrect on this though, as I was having problems with > notifications playing in general, even through artsd (which I > eventually traced to having artsplugin-xine installed _without_ > artsplugin-audiofile, which caused artsd to want to play all audio > through xine plugins, and fail with "unable to open file" more often > than not). Others are welcome to share their experiences with > external players and KDE notifications. ;-) > > -Richard >
Now that you mentioned it, a long time ago I had to use a external player because I could not get any sound at all. This was a long time ago though. Maybe a year to year and a half or so. I think I was using KDE 3.4 or so. I kept the flag in there just in case. It can't hurt that much I guess. Dale :-) :-) -- [email protected] mailing list
