Re: [LAD] User eXperience in Linux Audio

2015-04-21 Thread Thijs van severen
2015-04-21 8:21 GMT+02:00 Gordonjcp gordon...@gjcp.net: On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 08:16:05AM +0200, Thijs van severen wrote: We need to be aware of the fact that most people on this list are devs and therefore do NOT represent the average user In other words : I dont like splash screens so

Re: [LAD] User eXperience in Linux Audio

2015-04-21 Thread Thijs van severen
Hi Harry Just wondering where you got your inspriation for the above list? There are of course numerous documents on ui design .Something like this http://www.ambysoft.com/essays/userInterfaceDesign.html (but there are better documents that go into the details. I just i cant find them right now

Re: [LAD] User eXperience in Linux Audio

2015-04-21 Thread Gordonjcp
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 08:16:05AM +0200, Thijs van severen wrote: We need to be aware of the fact that most people on this list are devs and therefore do NOT represent the average user In other words : I dont like splash screens so i'm not going to implement one is (IMHO) a very very wrong

Re: [LAD] GuitarSynth

2015-04-21 Thread Guido Scholz
Am Mon, 20. Apr 2015 um 23:01:07 +0200 schrieb Gerald: Hi Gerald, Thanx. Fixed that and the warnings but a git push seem to be missing yet. Guido -- http://wie-im-flug.net/ http://www.lug-burghausen.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [LAD] User eXperience in Linux Audio

2015-04-21 Thread Will Godfrey
On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 04:07:15 -0700 Tracey Hytry sha...@bayarea.net wrote: As a user, a brief splash screen gives me a little feedback that I actually clicked the program icon. This is very much my view too. It also tells me that if the program is not working correctly after that, then I

Re: [LAD] User eXperience in Linux Audio

2015-04-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 08:43:15 +0200, Thijs van severen wrote: i dont think it has to be modal, and i'm also curious what other thing you will be doing in those 3-5 sec that the splash is there surprise me :-) Maybe taking a look at the messages displayed in the terminal emulation where the app

[LAD] Linux Audio Berlin user group

2015-04-21 Thread Bruno Gola
Hello! There were lot's of Berliners at LAC 2015 and after talking to some of them we thought it would be nice to start a linux audio user group here in Berlin. This is an open call to all Berlin based Linux Audio users and developers! Let's meet, talk and share knowledge :) So far we have a

Re: [LAD] GuitarSynth

2015-04-21 Thread Gerald
Thanks. The pitch detection is done by aubio library, but I rectify the signal before since that stabilizes the detection. By 'the 6th string' I assume you mean the lower pitched E string? Thats due to the longer waveform of lower frequencies which would need more frames per period to be detected.

Re: [LAD] [LAU] Linux Audio Berlin user group

2015-04-21 Thread Nils Gey
Hello Berlin User Group! Hello Bruno, Hello Sam, that is very good to hear! On behalf of the Open Source Audio Meeting Cologne I wish you luck. We exist for a year now and our regular meetings are 4 to 10 people. Maybe you find these information useful: Most important first: - Keep it social.

Re: [LAD] User eXperience in Linux Audio

2015-04-21 Thread Tracey Hytry
As a user, a brief splash screen gives me a little feedback that I actually clicked the program icon. It also tells me that if the program is not working correctly after that, then I should start it from the command line and trouble shoot it from there. Most of what Harry stated in is post

Re: [LAD] User eXperience in Linux Audio

2015-04-21 Thread Paul Davis
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: Regarding shortcuts for close/quit etc.: they are not always wanted. When I'm recording live I don't want any single key or mouse click to accidentally interfere with that. It's bad enough with e.g. Ardour's GUI -

Re: [LAD] User eXperience in Linux Audio

2015-04-21 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 04:30:14PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: Hence the new Lock feature which disables all GUI interaction entirely (except for a click on the lock window to unlock, of course). If that is a new feature in A4 it's an excellent idea. Regarding A4: I noticed that even when it

Re: [LAD] User eXperience in Linux Audio

2015-04-21 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 08:16:05AM +0200, Thijs van severen wrote: We need to be aware of the fact that most people on this list are devs and therefore do NOT represent the average user We also need to be aware of the following: * Developers are not necessarily coding nerds who are

Re: [LAD] User eXperience in Linux Audio

2015-04-21 Thread Paul Davis
Nobody else has noticed this to date. On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 04:30:14PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: Hence the new Lock feature which disables all GUI interaction entirely (except for a click on the lock window to