I went ahead and installed the test spin and had a few thoughts. I'm going
to start off with stuff that's really more presentation, but then hopefully
move into more important areas (like bugs.) Here are some of my initial
ideas:
1. I think it would be neat if we created our own KDE splash screen. I
think it would seperate us from the KDE spin upon first boot. I think it's
good for users to be able to instantly recognize that they're booting into
Fedora Jam, and not having any chance that they might be booting into
something else. I'm confortable heading over to the KDE channel and asking
for advice on how to do this to get it rolling.
2. If we do our own splash screen, I'm pretty sure we can have our own
unique icons show up instead of the typical Hard Drive, Sys Pref, Plasma,
Web, and KDE icons show up. If we do pull our own, what ones should we use?
I have a few ideas, but I could use input:
1. Microphone
2. Drums
3. Bass
4. Guitar
5. 1/4" Cable ends
6. Stage
7. Violin
8. Keyboard (black and white keys to represent Pianos, Organs, and
Synths)
9. Amp
10. Headphones
11. TurnTables
12. Speakers
13. Music Staff
14. Mixing Board
15. Jar of Jam.
3. Can we edit some of the default KDE programs and startup items? I
don't know what browser most of us use, but somehow I doubt that it's
Konqueror. There's also a KDE chat client, and a daemon to help Konqueror
start more quickly in the startup items. Don't think it should be enabled
by default.
4. Along those lines, I think we should change the default desktop items
as well. The home and trash items are great, but I think we should also
include icons for our primary DAW, JACK manager, and primary notation
software to make it easier for first time users. I installed it and thought
to myself... ok... now what? A link to the musician's guide would be good
too. (Also for our testing day, A link for people to make
suggestions/and/or bugreports, this would be removed when we submit the
spin for release.)
5. Again along the same lines, we should change the default "Favorites"
in Kickoff to represent what we're trying to accomplish with our spin. I
don't think it has to all be music related, but at least have a couple of
music things in there.
6. Likewise, I thnk the Program Catagories under the KDE launcher
(Kickoff I think they call it) are poorly labled. Under Mixers, there's
Rackarack (effects) and in the main multimedia group there are a bunch of
mixer programs. (!?!?!?!) I tihnk it would be wise for us to get a new sub
section we can throw programs into (Maybe titled ProAudio?) There's too
much that can fall under MultiMedia (Everything from DAWs to Effects, to
Video Player and to Programs that burn ISOs.) It's too much. Techically
Graphics could have been under Multimedia, but they must have made their
own group at some point. I think it's time for us to do the same. I was
going to list some things that I think are out of place but the list grew
to large so I'll make a sublist here of things I think are in odd places.
1. LillyPond shouldn't be under utilities with all the other system
tools.
2. echomixer should be under mixers
3. Rakarrack shouldn't be under mixers
4. I just noticed the "Creation" folder under multi-media. I think
that should be moved out of there and changed into our new group.
5. There's a lot of Config programs for LASH, ALSA, HDSP, ect that
should be put into their own folder.
7. I didn't have time to update, so this may just be me, but both times
I've booted, LASH crashed on me. I'm going to update and see if it does it
again, but I also didn't want to forget hence the mention here.
8. Jack crashed on me twice trying to launch some synth programs. Same
as above, so I didn't actually file any bug reports.
Looking back I'm realizing that a lot of this is fluff, but I really feel
like it will be good for our end users. Also, sorry for just vomitting a
bunch of problems, and not having any solutions/fixes. But let's face it.
Sometimes I don't know what the hell I'm doing. If someone wants to help
sponsor me and explain what I need to grab for fixes I'm completely willing
to do some of the foot work.
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Jørn Lomax <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/07/2012 04:12, Brendan Jones wrote:
>
>> On 07/11/2012 04:07 AM, Jørn Lomax wrote:
>>
>>> I have now started making composes of the kickstart file. It will be
>>> made every night around 01.00 CET (23.00 UTC) from the latest kickstart
>>> in the git repo. It's not the proper build system, but it will do until
>>> we get the spin approved. To get the iso file, just point your browser
>>> to
>>> sheep-punchers.info/fedora-**audio[1]<http://sheep-punchers.info/fedora-audio%5B1%5D>and
>>> download it. (only x86_64 is
>>> available at the moment, 32bit will come tomorrow morning)
>>>
>>> We now have a working spin, but it still needs a little work. It's
>>> almost time to start testing it and working out the bugs :D
>>>
>>>
>>> [1]sheep-punchers.info/fedora-**audio<http://sheep-punchers.info/fedora-audio>
>>>
>> Cheers Jorn!
>>
>> Pulling down now...
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> 32 bit images are now also available at the same URL.
>
> while I'm at it, new bugfix: Liveuser is now automaticly in the jackuser
> and audio groups
>
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> GSoC Fedora Audio
> CS Student University of Tromsø
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