Re: "Easy-ui" interface code

Jack O'Quin wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 3:18 PM, John Rigg <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>   
>> I'm afraid I have to agree with Ron here. `Dumbing down' the default
>> interface might attract users who are not audio engineers, but it
>> is certainly not going to increase the number of professional
>> recording and mastering facilities using it. I know from talking
>> to colleagues in the business that the reason this software hasn't
>> been adopted more widely is that it runs on Linux. People aren't
>> familiar enough with it yet to risk using it to run their businesses.
>> That'll take time. Making the default settings useless for anything
>> but home demos isn't going to help.
>>
>> Paul Davis has addressed the problem of usability by making the SAE
>> version of Ardour, simplified for student use, available alongside the
>> "full power" standard version. That seems to be a more sensible approach
>> than turning what is supposed to be a professional mastering tool into
>> what looks at first glance to be a toy.
>>     
>
> We could do that.
>
> There could be two commands, both using the same internal real-time
> audio components.  The stripped-down one would provide a simpler GUI.
> I'd suggest building them both in the same source tree.  If done
> right, they could even share a single JACK graph (though that hardly
> seems useful).
>   
That's what I have done.

    jamin -g

gives the "easy" gui

    jamin

gives the normal gui.

There is a button to toggle between each version of the interface.


Cheers.


-- 
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd.




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