Yes, my goal was definately to create some more attention to this and see
if I was the only person with this problem.
I agree that it is more an inconvenience but it's a inconvenience that
creates issues for some of us that don't keep all of our VSTs in one root
folder and use the sub-folders to organise our plugins. It's something most
other DAWs seem to do with relative ease and thought that maybe there was a
simple solution to this but obviously not... :)
It just means that I am limited to plugins that are in the root folder
which unfortunately are only about 5-7%, the rest of them are divided into
sub-folders and changing this structure may inadvertently mess up setting
with my other DAWs. It's one of the reasons I haven't fully migrated over
to LMMS as I had hoped to do some months ago - everything else about it
works the way I like.
I have read on a few occasions that there are a lack of developers with
LMMS and would love to be helpful in this department but unfortunately
music making is already difficult enough to do, let alone C++!
Hope some really great person out there can implement this very small
feature, fingers crossed. :)
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 11:51 PM, Tres Finocchiaro <
tres.finocchi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If your goal is to stir some more attention around this bug, I've tagged
> it for 1.2, but that is just speculative, as this behavior is more of an
> inconvenience than it is a real show stopper so it might not get any
> attention if someone doesn't choose to work on it.
>
> I've fixed a few minor bugs like this before, so I might be a good
> candidate to fix this one too, but I've never really been happy with the
> handling of VSTs in general as I feel we don't properly distinguish between
> VST instruments and VST effects in terms of our configuration directories.
>
> The reason I say this is because although we have a plugin window which
> lists the VST effects, the instruments are sort of treated as a sample in
> the sense that you have to browse to the DLLs and then add them to see what
> they look and sound like... And you need to know to use the DLL, which most
> DAWs auto-import from a share Steinberg directory. But my griefs with this
> functionality are moot if I can't fix them, as we have very few developers
> working on making Windows instrument plugins work better... :)
>
> So, yes, there are likely dozens or hundreds wanting this functionality
> enhanced, but very few that have looked at the code necessary to fix it.
>
> If we had more devs we could consider a priority or voting system on bugs,
> but we aren't there yet, and from the looks of things, won't be until more
> people pick up C++. :)
>
> BTW, I don't know C++, I just make changes until the software compiles and
> let those who do know C++ tell me what I did wrong. :)
>
> -Tres
>
>
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