On 09/03/2009 11:27 AM, michael noble wrote: > If I'm understanding the latter half of this thread correctly it is > exactly what I've been wanting in a window manager for a gnu/linux > based daw for a long time - a visual patching based desktop and window > manager. > > Zoom out and you get a patchage like overview of all windows between > which you can make connections. You can then zoom into each app object > to whichever degree you wish using some combination of modifier key > and mouse wheel over the object, make application adjustments and then > zoom back out to the overall canvas. I think we inherited the desktop > approach from graphical design, where the notion of bounded workspaces > makes more sense. I'd rather my desktop were an unbounded extended > "canvas" of inter-patchable windows with something like LADIsh and > JACK underpinning session interconnection and management. > > But who has the resources to pull something like that off? >
This zoom in/out functionality already exists in KDE and is also a part of the apple desktop. We don't currently have a wm or desktop environemtn that communicates with jack. I'm am very interested in seeing this happen and I think it can be tied into the lash/ladish system too. Cheers Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev