On Wednesday, February 23, 2011, Luis Garrido wrote: > I am preparing FLAM's (Front-ends for Linux Audio Modules) first > release.
I wanted to let you folks know that Luis's project piqued my interest, and I've been playing around with it for the past few days. The implications for Rosegarden are really interesting. We apparently offer the only plugin host capable of mating external plugin GUIs to LADSPA plugins through DSSI. This is something Chris cooked up years ago, but which I don't think has ever really been utilized until now. In the course of playing with all of this, I've discovered there are a fair number of commonly-available LADSPA plugins for which the interface Rosegarden provides is highly inadequate. Some of them are plugins I've used quite a lot without realizing how woefully inadequate our interface was. Where I'm expecting this to lead, eventually, is that there will be much better external GUIs available for these plugins by way of FLAM, and Rosegarden will become aware of this, and provide the better interface when appropriate. What all of this is going to boil down to over time is that Linux plugins will cease having completely crappy looking, utilitarian interfaces. It will be possible to design things pretty much to the same level of polish as can be found on platforms like Windows and OS-X. The possibilities for what might be done with interfaces are nearly unlimited. It's a pretty interesting thing. I've always been more of a MIDI and notation guy, and will continue to be, but I'm enjoying playing around with this new technology. A lot of you out there have expressed an interest in doing something helpful over the years, but I haven't been able to come up with projects for most of you, because Rosegarden is just a lousy place for an inexperienced developer to grow up. If you have to ask how to help, or what to do, chances are low that you will be able to contribute effectively, and that, sadly, is just the nature of this beast. Perhaps some of you could help the community at large by designing plugin interfaces for FLAM. This is mostly a matter of getting familiar with Qt Designer and Qt's CSS-like stylesheets, and the barrier to entry should be fairly low in comparison. -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
