Yeah, aRtsD can run stand alone without KDE. I do believe artsd is superior to esd in that the output doesn't sound like a scratchy shortwave radio. On my machine, aRtsD does have slightly more overhead (according to top), but it's hardly noticeable on my box.
--- Derek. On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > I am considering writing a Wine Driver for esd. I am wondering > > basically where I start. > > I'm not trying to start a Gnome/KDE flame war, but as far as I know, esd is > unmaintained and the Gnome developpers are thinking about switching to aRtsd. > Wouldn't it be more useful to write an aRts driver ? > > Laurent Pinchart > > >
