Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] ladspa plugin GUI proposal
From: Erik Steffl (esteffl_AT_pbi.net)
Date: Thu May 25 2000 - 18:03:37 EEST
Benno Senoner wrote:
>
> Maurizio made very interesting points:
>
> I don't think that splittinhg the dsp code and GUI code
> in separate .so files would hurt us much.
>
> plus using the toolkit-process approach , we could
> cover at least all gtk / Qt plugins for now, since
> we can assume that Qt and gtk is installed on almost every
> distro.
that's downright ugly. plus all the plugins you use would have to use
same gui or gui part (at least) of plugin would have to run as separate
process (and have its own X connection).
> Plus if we have XML I welcome it as just an additional way
> to build a GUI.
if it's possible (=good enough) this could be the best way, IMO. some
programs already support XML 'skins', at least freeamp (IIRC), so we
might look there for inspiration.
> Of course the DSP only .so file is a vaild point for
> headless servers.
> The idea of processing on one box , while doing
> GUI stuff on another will be come very likely and
> we need to prepare the road for this.
??? you can do that with any X program... but you know that so what do
you mean?
> so how about to build a LADSPA-GUI SDK which would contain
> all infos about protocol/libraries , toolkit issues,
> toolkit-handlers (the helper processes of the host) etc.
> That GUI scheme will run in perfect synergy with LADSPA but the DSP
> code can run totally indepentently.
yes, that's a good idea. for lot of plugins it does not even make
sense to create gui, host can create one based on parameters&hints.
erik
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