Hallo, Marek Peteraj hat gesagt: // Marek Peteraj wrote: > Judging from the current situation of the audio market that includes > proprietary app/plugins, the popularity thereof, from the numerous > reviews i've seen and from the numerous forum threads i've read... > > You're representing a very small minority :)
True, my taste is special, but it's also, because people working with Pd, Max/MSP, Supercollider or similar tools have everything they need in those apps, thus in general they don't need to hunt down new hip applications, which often are only doing a single task, in magazines. But I intended to point out two other things: * First is, that usability has nothing to do with nice looks. I truely believe - and given some research time, I'm sure I could prove it as well - that photorealistic graphical user interfaces modelled after hardware when shown on a screen are far from usability. Other people will probably want just that: photo-GUIs. I fear, looking at the commercial audio market, that exactly these might happen in the Linux Sound world: eye candy, but bad usability. * and then I'd like to add, that usabilty in the Linux world comes from customizabilty, which is mostly absent in the Windows world. The Unix philosphy is built upon small (or specific) tools that can be combined in various, *custom* ways and that can be used to let the computer appear in a way, the user wants, not the other way around. LADSPA combined with Jack is of course a good example of this philosophy. Look e.g. at Jackrack: it does provide a consistent GUI for LADSPA plugins, that you could use just fine with every other jack-enabled application, and one will get a very usable and consistent interface. And that even without Steve wasting his precious time writing GUI code. ;) Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
