Fons Adriaensen: > Well, for the record, I am a professional user in every sense > of the word you could imagine. I'm being paid to design and > develop audio systems running on Linux, and that is my main > source of income. >
> If it works, and if it doesn't make a mess of the calibrated > gains for each channel, and if you can convince the users of > this system that they need it, you will be paid very well and > then you can consider yourself a professional. You can be as much of a professional user as you want to. It doesn't change the fact that other professionals might not want the system to behave like you do. >A simple environment variable tested by >all apps will do (e.g. something similar to 'EDITOR' which >is used by most apps that need to start a text editor). > >Any app that directly connects to the sound card, without >even offering the option not to do so, is like a musician >walking into a studio and plugging his synth directly in >the the control room's power amps. Even if he promises not >to do that again next time, there's a good chance he won't >be welcome anymore. We agree about this. Snd has the environment variable SND_AUTOCONNECT_PORT, or something, but a common name for all programs would be much better. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
