To be fair, I did have to do this once. Kubuntu shipped with one that was broken by default, at least on my system.
Me too. That's why I'm complaining! In Gnome world I haven't needed to think about backends for a long, long time.
To be fair, I did have to do this once. Kubuntu shipped with one that was broken by default, at least on my system.
Me too. I don't consider that a good thing - I'd rather have just the working backend; not as a default, but as the only option.
Or your distributor can plug in the best backend on your OS (yeah, they really might be different on Solaris, BSD, Linux, Windows and Mac) so that you can get sound from your speakers.
It should be a compile time option or something - at least there should be no GUI to change the backend. Exposing the backend selection in gui makes it a "reasonable" thing for a user to do, which should not be the case at all.
if i wanted to get raped by a mouse i would just go to a pet store, buy one and shove it up my ass
So you have a pluggable backend too?
Seriously though, phonon has pluggable backends, and this does not mean the PulseAudio is going to be compulsory for KDE users, any more than its DirectShow integration makes MS Windows compulsory for KDE users.
I really appreciate this feature. Instead of just hearing sound from speakers, I find it tremendously important to be able to "plug my own backend" to hear it, you know, somehow differently.
Frankly, not supporting PA well has been the most ridiculous shortcoming in KDE (after networkmanager). It has been the "no audio desktop environment" lately, but this appears to be fixed now.
So they buy Apples too, huh?
Yeah, I think I saw a monkey holding a phone in a weird fashion the other day.
And another monkey reading a book on objective C.
I don't *expect* a BFG 9000 to be realistic.
If it were, it would kill half the fun.
I'm pretty sure that BFG9k would kill *all* the fun, and then some.
All open source projects are hiring - just find a program you like that has a bug or omission. If it's useful for your day job, even better.
No, and no. The data structure described by Henning-Kamp is not a B-tree, but a heap. Additionally, it's cache-aware, not cache-oblivious.
With the ongoing success of Clang and other LLVM subprojects is the days of GNU as the mainstream free and open development toolchain passé?
No.
SAVE MONEY!! Once you can afford to, buy a house. Marry someone sensible and like yourself.
And don't forget the sunscreen.
Nokia Qt SDK - yes.
In fact, once 4.7 is released within the next couple months, you will be able to publish directly to the n900, interact with your app, and trigger break points in Qt-Creator on your PC.
What you want is PR1.2, not Qt 4.7. PR1.2 will happen earlier.
Oh please, Apple has come out with some Spiffy stuff.
The I-Pad is a Vanilla offering undeserving of the apple moniker..
And no, I'm no Mac Fan.
If you are no mac fan, why do you use the phrase "undeserving of the apple moniker"?
The Tao is like a glob pattern: used but never used up. It is like the extern void: filled with infinite possibilities.
