Re: "Easy-ui" interface code

On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 11:28 +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> 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.


It's kind of funny but what I've ended up with is a presets window.

I've attached a screenshot.



-- 
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd

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