On Monday 26 February 2007 23:36:02 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > > You can also compile all of kde switching off the "alsa" use flag. > > > > Did you mean to say "arts"?  I thought that this was required to be able > > to play KDE system notifications? > > no, arts is not required to be able to play the KDE notifications. In all fairness it used to be necessary to enable arts for kdelibs... # grep -C 3 KNotify $(portageq portdir)/kde-base/kdelibs/ChangeLog 19 Oct 2006; Diego Pettenò +files/kdelibs-3.5.5-noarts.patch, +files/kdelibs-3.5.5-noarts-2.patch, +kdelibs-3.5.5-r3.ebuild: Add patches to allow KNotify to work with arts disabled (see upstream bug #99246), closes bug #79029. Enable mitshm, and sendfile on Linux, closes bug #148299. -- Bo Andresen