First of all : please consider that this is only a mind-slipping around naming practices in linux dev and some patterns they imply... I mean don't take it personnal please ;)
I think JACK's good for 2 reasons, 1 : > its name allready expresses what it does > And I pretty much thing every musician in the world knows what a Jack is as > they use them all the time... So they allready have a way to pronounce it. witch is great, straight forward, ...flashy IMHO. 2 : My belief (just a matter of opinion) is that linux hackers community should begin to produce some GLOBALLY intelligible (thus usable) 'verbs/idioms/metaphors'. In other words : leave the "speaking in tongue elite" syndrome to linux adolescence. For me LAIC is possibly just another example of that attitude "well I know this name is not fully understood by every average body but that's what it is designed for anyway hehe.. not too apealing, just as explicit as I need it to be, real guys know what it is supposed to do, others are lame." > Depends on how many times you've heard somebody complaining about > something in Linux because Windows does it differently... and wanted > to say almost exactly that phrase... This statement is something I'm not used to hear but I often think about... Although Windows is not a good example for many reasons, linux has some huge work to fulfil towards workability : > Ditto here. I'd rather spend my time recording/playing music than > compiling/configuring a sound card. Mmmmh, yes that's stone-age of user experience.. ;) I know different distributions/toolkits are the major issue about having a "plug-n-play-like" mechanism but the inverse pathologic ability of linux is nauseous to almost anybody : "Linux is sooooo cool that I can set up a mail-based FS/disc browser with a 27k (very light weight) program of mine, I just have to setup a localhost mail server (compiled from the source distro), just note that to run mail-ls you must have libfnh, libtrge, libfdsre, and cdbxrt up and running (ah you don't know what the hell is that? well that's easy : just check libfnh.org, libtrge.org, libfdsre.org, and cdbxrt.org for compliation/installation notes and configuration of these extremely-powerfull-almost-all-purpose software pieces).. Then any mail-client will fit the purpose. For operation notes type man ls, any command will fit in the subject field.... that's linux magic!" Well this is science-fiction (near) but just intended to point on some questions that could be worth to be adressed soon and especially in the music/artistic field where users experience is related to fragile creatives processes... The non-programmer & doc post was really a good reflexion in that direction I think... It raises the existence of potential non-programmer users of linux and the possible improvement that can be made to adapt toward this family of users. Many musicians would use linux+audio+midi(+video) rather than windows if they didn't need to be/ask a hacker...I think anything that can be made to improve linux usability for non-programmers is to be done. Any ideas? _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
