On Tuesday 21 June 2005 01:59, Jens M Andreasen wrote: > 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?
What is the rationale for doing anything? Fun? Sex? Ego? Evolution? Nonsense? It's up2you! > > Best regards > > > > > > ce
