Re: [LAU] why shouldn't clients autoconnect to jack

From: Kjetil S. Matheussen <k.s.matheussen@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Mon Mar 23 2009 - 20:58:38 EET

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Paul Davis wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Kjetil S. Matheussen <
> k.s.matheussen@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> This is a design fault in jack. Jack should
>> by default always autoconnect new ports to physical in/outs
>> when they are created. (first created port is connected
>> to the first physical port, and so on)
>
>
> why the first?
>

What do you mean? Would you rather connect to the last physical
port instead? I have 10 physical output ports in jack, but
only 2 of them are connected to loudspeakers...

>
>>
>> I think this would have pleased everyone.
>
>
> my reading is somewhat opposite of this.
>

Well, I said this too:

"
In addition, a jackd command line option to turn
autoconnect off is required
for those who (for good reasons) don't want that behaviour, or
those who want to autonnect to a different client than
the client handling the physical in/outs. And there should also be an
option which turns autoconnect
off for specific ports (i.e. an extra argument for jack_create_port).
"

Without that, the other things I said would have been incredibly stupid.

> i do agree that it would be good to define some "system aliases" so that it
> was possible to reliably and controllably discover *which* physical ports to
> connect to if autoconnect is going to be used.
>

That sounds too complicated. Why not just add a command line option for
jackd for selecting which client to autoconnect to?

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