like "play this wave file". The major remaining drawback >is latency; click on button in app, hear sound 2 seconds later when >scheduler
This is why we have sound servers like jack. Any delay is likely due to not having a fully callback based architecture in the app.
Maybe a better thing to do is rewrite arts/esd library >interfaces to omit the daemons altogether. That way the daemons can go >away, but the existing applications can be trivially migrated.
I've heard that arts is being phased out from kde use in the near future. I'm not sure what might replace it though.
Chris