Yeah, Alf! Add my thanks to Kaj and all
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Alf Haakon Lund <a...@mellomrommet.no>wrote: > What problem? ;-) > > I think it's a great gift that we have a special flavour of Ubuntu packed > with all sorts of media tools. Heading towards free choice of DE and metas > it will only get better. > > While I don't know or understand or bother to find out how to use most of > the programs available, I appreciate that they're there. When finding > solutions on the internet, sometimes it turns out the program I need is > already installed, while if not, it's likely to be found in the > repositories. > > Unless running rather ancient hardware space shouldn't be an issue, > either. The only complaint I would agree with is that program descriptions > are sometimes unhelpful, at least to us beginners. "LV2 plugins host for > JACK" can sound pretty cryptic... > > Also a bit confusing is the libav / ffmpeg schism. I had some trouble > creating dvd iso's. To solve the problem I tried to use ffmpeg instead of > ffmpeg (a bit tongue-in-cheek, yes) and I'm still not sure if I succeeded. > > But basically I think Ubuntu Studio is a great project and that folks like > Kaj who spend countless hours on it... Well, I hope you hear as often as > you deserve that your work is appreciated! > > Al F > > > > > > On 06. okt. 2013 20:10, Kaj Ailomaa wrote: > >> The solution to this problem will be fixed for 14.04, namely, the >> user will have the choice which metas to install. Maybe it might even >> be worth thinking about per package selection, but this remains to be >> seen. >> >> In your case it sounds to me that what you want to do is not install >> any metas, and add individual packages afterwards, am I correct? >> >> The whole point of the metas is to provide all possible workflows, >> and at the same time work as a showcase for new users. It's a way to >> show what is available. There's no way we can make the metas suite >> every individuals particular needs. And if someone wants to see a >> wider range of metas, I'd like to see compelling reasons for doing >> so. Currently, the ISO is quite small, about 2.5 GB. The menu is not >> cluttered, thanks to our custom categorization. From my POV, it's >> pretty well organized in that sense. >> >> Ardour is not more advanced than it needs to be for what it is >> designed for. It's the only decent recording/mixing application for >> Linux, if you ask me. Audacity is not a recording tool at all. It's >> an audio wave editor. All though you can use it to both do multitrack >> recording and mixing, that is not what it was designed for, and it's >> quite poor at it as well. >> >> There's no getting around it. If you need to perform a task, you need >> to learn how to do it. Sometimes, what you need is to code stuff >> yourself, which is what I've found and which is why I use puredata. >> But, granted, not everyone will want to do that. Not everyone will >> want to use LMMS either. And some people will only want to use >> supercollider. >> >> Making applications easier to use is not something we can change in >> Ubuntu Studio, other than providing documentation and doing >> tutorials. If you need smarter applications, you need to either code >> them yourself, or help develop existing ones. We just provide them on >> our ISO. >> >> There's been talk about providing an abstraction, in the form of an >> application or by using existing tools for sessions management, to >> make it easier for new users to find how to use the existing >> applications in the system. But, someone will need to develop that.. >> > > -- > ubuntu-studio-users mailing list > ubuntu-studio-users@lists.**ubuntu.com<ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/** > mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-**studio-users<https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users> >
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