Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Modular Jack patch bay
From: Marcus Andersson (marcus.t.andersson_AT_spray.se)
Date: Mon Feb 02 2004 - 08:20:10 EET
Dave Robillard wrote:
>Screenshot:
>http://chat.carleton.ca/~drobilla/patchbay.png
>
>Waiting on the Jack callback issue to make a pre-release. Anyway,
>basically I need a name for this thing, and any (UI) suggestions anyone
>has.
>
>Eventually it will be a combined jack/alsa patch bay, so it'd be nice if
>the name reflected both jack and alsa, but I'd rather not have "Linux"
>in the title.
>
>Any interface ideas (other than the color of the modules ;) ) are
>welcome... and if anyone has ideas for an elegant
>automatic-module-placement solution, I'd love to hear them. Right now
>they're just randomly placed. (Are there known algorithms in graph
>theory for this sort of thing?)
>
>
A simple idea would be to place them randomly initially, and thereafter
always place them where the user put them the last time. My guess is
that a typical user will have the same applications running from session
to session, and would prefer if they where positioned at the same place
every time.
Marcus
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