>>>>> "Karl" == Karl M Hegbloom <karlheg@bittersweet.inetarena.com> writes:
Karl> It would be good to check and see how powerful and loaded
Karl> the machine is, and not start too much going at once if it's
Karl> not that powerful. But if it can deal with it, we ought to,
Karl> by default, start up `gkrellm', `xmms', and run a `gmix' to
Karl> set some reasonable mixer defaults alsa. There ought to be
Karl> an *.ogg in the XMMS when it's first time launched with a
Karl> message from us. (Perhaps singing "(Join us now and) Free
Karl> the Software" as a chorus? I believe we have a few
Karl> musicians amoung our ranks.)
If this is done, it might be nice to have XMMS default to using
the esound output plugin; otherwise it takes control of the
sound card and doesn't play well at all with GNOME.
Ben
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