Re: [LAD] Summercode 2008: LASH as a D-Bus service

From: Bob Ham <rah@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Wed Jan 23 2008 - 00:22:22 EET

On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 21:32 +0200, Nedko Arnaudov wrote:
> Bob Ham <rah@email-addr-hidden> writes:
>
> >> * lash does not preserve X11 related properties of apps, like on what
> >> screen (dual-head) they were.
> >
> > Nor should it. The X11 system is nothing whatsoever to do with LASH,
> > intentionally. From LASH's perspective, anything to do with X11 is
> > entirely the client's responsibility. Adding X11-specific functionality
> > into the protocol, the server and the library should not happen.
> >
> > Providing convenience functions to clients is a solution, eg
> > lash_x11_get_state_configs() and that returns a set of LASH configs
> > containing the state of the X11 system. And, of course, functions to
> > restore the state. But it should be separate from LASH itself, eg, in
> > some liblash-x11.
> >
> >> * Supporting connections for things other than JACK (read ALSA seq)
> >
> > LASH already does support ALSA seq. Future support would be connecting
> > via netjack, or firewire, or $next_big_thing.
>
> Oh, sure, LASH should support network multimachine sessions but it has
> nothing to do with X11? I find this funny :)

Why do you find it funny?

> You want to use firewire for what exactly?

Taking audio from JACK client A on host 1 to JACK client B on host 2.

Bob

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