On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 00:10 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > > (And remember GNOME & KDE are multi-platform - so I don't > > > think GNOME & KDE apps can use ALSA directly.) > > > > They don't have to use ALSA directly, but they can use a > > common library which uses ALSA directly like polypaudio. > > That's true. KDE also runs on other operating systems like BSD > or even Win, so they still need an abstraction like > polypaudio, gstreamer or portmidi, and this one needs to be > prepared for all other supported platforms.
Maybe I am stupid and therefore I have to ask: What is the rationale for running KDE (or Gnome?) in an MS Win environment? > > > Best regards > > > ce > --
