Re: [linux-audio-dev] User Interface

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] User Interface
From: Patrick Shirkey (pshirkey_AT_boosthardware.com)
Date: Fri Jul 27 2001 - 15:03:08 EEST

Richard Guenther wrote:
>
> Well, people dont stop development on their apps they worked on for
> one and a half year - this will not happen.
>

Both you and Paul feel the same way on that topic. I don't hold it
against you either.

I would like to add that I feel it is the ideas that are more important
than the individual apps. Each one has different strong points. Things
progress so much faster with the sound editors if we combined these
ideas.

That is where the true value of the Gimp lies. It's not the useful gui
design but the fact that the code can be extended in so many ways and is
constantly evolving. It also serves as a focal point for a large
community of multimedia specialists.

Unless I'm mistaken there are three editor projects that have been
designed to allow for many kinds of gui toolkits. Some would say skins.
This is a very good idea. Seperate the gui from the guts and we have a
very portable editing app.

The library of useful ideas for each project are reasonably sized but
nothing as extensive as the code base for win or mac editors. But if we
had combined them all from the start then we would already have a very
strong editing suite. How unrealistic is it? Is that posibility just too
fantastic?

No-one has to stop working on their specialist project unless they want
to. What I want to know is why is it so difficult for the people making
the editing software to cooperate? It's the ideas that are most
important. What does it matter if you run your own medium sized cvs tree
or if you contribute to a large universal tree? In fact now that I think
about it you would probably get more recognition if you contribute to a
large code base. Of course it will probably mean more concessions but
then if it is really good you just have to prove it.

That is the Linux way. 

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Patrick Shirkey - Manager Boost Hardware.
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