On Tuesday 18 November 2003 11:01 am, Anders Ellenshøj Andersen wrote: > I don't understand why kde is so closely tied to arts? > > Speaking from my personal experience, what arts is mostly good for is > getting in the way of my sound driver. > > Since I started using alsa, there has been no correlation between arts and > the hardware. It's like I have two sound systems competing with each other, > and arts is cripled since it can't adjust the mixer volumes. > > I'd really rather not use arts at all.
Then don't. Go into the Control Center, under Sound & Multimedia, select Sound Server. Uncheck 'Start at login', and then use non-kde multimedia apps, like xmms, etc. All you'll be missing is the System Sounds (which I never, ever, turn on) and the use of noatun, kaboodle, etc (which some people don't like, apparently :-). arts isn't magic, and KDE doesn't have a run-time dependency on it. -- D.A.Bishop
