Replying to this email because I can answer both :)
On Mon, 31 Aug 2015, Jimmy Sjölund wrote:
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:46 AM, ttoine <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks guys for your answers.
Perhaps we should join the effort of KXstudio and develop something with
its dev (if he agrees). I don't what is the best, that is why I send this
Falktx works almost full time on kxstudio and other projects. The chances
of any of us keeping up with him, let alone being a helpful minion are
pretty small.
my emai. I just feel that we are screwed with Canonical until we use a
Ubuntu derivative name.
I'm not sure I got the last phrase? You mean we are screwed until we break loose
from Ubuntu and Canonical? If so, why is that? Other than we can't make a
profit?
I don't really see any downsides being an official Ubuntu flavour otherwise.
I feel that UbuntuStudio is in a unique place that while it does have it's
troubles also has a lot of plus sides too. If there was a debian distro
that was consitantly stable, doing a debian based Studio might make sense.
However, in my opinion, xubuntu makes the very best base for a multi media
development distro. It is stable, has the help of people who also develop
xfce, and it is made for doing more than entertainment. It is not a
"beautiful desktop experience" suited to grabbing the attention of the
smart phone user as Unity is, but it is well set up for work. It is
featurefull enough that it doesn't feel unfinished, but at the same time
very nimble.
Really, I feel we sometimes have more trouble with the debian packagers
than with Ubuntu. We would do better for ourselves packaging Falktx's SW
in debs for debian. (unless there is something non-free... as debian see
it... in there) There are a number of other developers like openAV and Non
that would benefit (them and us) from packaging their SW.
However, the real place we could shine is system infra structure. Making
things like jack work well for the first time user. This is possible. Here
is a simple sample that could be expanded:
http://gareus.org/blog/jack2dbus
The number of people who have trouble as a first time jack user would be
cut down quickly if when they plugged in a USB AI, Jack just used it. Also
running jack from session start. Running PA as just a jack front end would
solve many issues too. The other thing that would make things easier for
new jack users is to make sure all audio IFs are available when jack is
running using zitta-ajbridge if needed. (controls would let the user
decide which AI should be used as media clock with the rest having SR
shift as needed)
This requires no real coding. It is mostly configuration and simple
scripts. The big work would be testing. In the work we might even find out
how to unstick jack... without killall -9.
Really, part of the trouble with Studio is that some people have said
Studio is just Xubuntu with extra apps. Having -controls is the first step
to showing that is not true... even if it is already untrue, a -controls
application gives visual evidence.
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Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net
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