> I think we should (and can) keep the desktop and 'pro' > worlds separate.
I do not agree :) . We're in the free software world, so there's no need to tell the non-pro-audio-users "use anything else". > And if they have to be integrated, the > solution will be JACK. Agreed. > Writing a JACKified app is not > harder (rather the contrary) than for any other API I know. > There could be some libs on top of JACK to make the common > things such as bells and chimes even simpler > {jack_play("boing.wav");}. The only condition is that jackd > should be 100% reliable and monkey-proof, but I think it's > already quite close to that target. I think so too. We "simply" need some attention from the desktop guys so they start doing the last work to rech the target. > I remember that when I started using Linux (SL 8.1) JACK > was quite a hairy thing to have on you system, and a few > months later at the first LAC, there were lots of "killall > jackd" all the time. And now ? When my desktop comes up > qjackctl starts running, and it stays there for as long as > the system is up. The same for me. Works great. Best regards ce