Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: ladspa xml gui - web site needed !
From: Conrad Parker (conrad_AT_vergenet.net)
Date: Tue Feb 27 2001 - 12:50:31 EET
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:25:53AM +0100, Frank Neumann wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Daniel Venkitachalam wrote:
>
> > Would it be too ugly to have a predetermined path for the xml
> > definitions (eg /usr/local/lib/ladspa/gui)? Then each definition
> > references a particular plugin by ID number, by adding a "plugin"
> > to <interface>. It is then up to the host to scan the available
> > GUI's and make them available depending on which plugins are
> > installed. This has the advantage of not touching the LADSPA
> > spec, and also allows different GUI layouts for the same plugin
> > where appropriate.
>
> We already have $LADSPA_PATH for plugins, so I think it would be a good
> idea to reuse it - like, put the xml files into the same directory, or
> probably into a "gui" subdirectory under $LADSPA_PATH. You'll want to keep
> the plugins and their GUI descriptions close together anyway (IMHO, of course).
if the guis are platform-independent (eg. xml) they should go in a 'share'
directory, something like:
plugin libraries: /usr/lib/ladspa/
gui xml specs: /usr/share/ladspa/
Conrad.
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