Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] User Interface
From: Patrick Shirkey (pshirkey_AT_boosthardware.com)
Date: Thu Jul 26 2001 - 19:54:54 EEST
My reason is that there are so many editors to chose from I can only
really be bothered with contributing to 3 of them seriously.
Everyone is trying to do almost exactly the same thing so I have looked
around and chosen three (arbitrarily) that I like the most.
I have given up fighting the fact that I will have to write the same
thing over and over again while I'm contributing to Linux audio. So at
this stage I have to budget my energy. I just can't see much point in
reading and understanding the code for 10 or 20 competing editors when
IMO all those resources should be invested in one or two competing
editors (maybe three).
We just don't have the numbers of people contributing to justify such
fractured development.
Have the Glamers bothered to install ardour yet? What about sweep? Or
audacity?
I just spent the past two days getting all the editors I could find and
testing them out. All I wanted was to cut some fluff off a medium sized
stereo file. The only one I could use is Audacity because it was the
only one I could fully install that would actually save a large file
(even then it was from cvs). Now I would like to put some Ladspa effects
on the file but find if I do it in Audacity then I have to write the
code myself. I'm struck by the futility of doing this for yet another
sound editor because if i could use glame, sweep, ardour, ecasound,
other editor that has LADSPA support, then I wouldn't have to spend my
energy on implementing the same code again. I also note that by the time
I finish writing said code I'll probably be able to use one of the other
apps to do what I want anyway.
At the moment we have so many competing ways of doing the same thing but
hardly any of it is entirely useful. If we just combined all the ideas
into the same editor then we would get a lot more progress. I'm sure we
are capable of making it so that the gui can be extended in any way.
To put it bluntly. LAD make a mockery of the idea of lazy hackers.
Everyone is trying to do the same thing over and over and over and.....
-- Patrick Shirkey - Manager Boost Hardware. Importing Korean Computer Hardware to New Zealand. http://www.boosthardware.com - Cool toys to fufill every geeks fantasy.
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