Subject: Re: [LAU] why shouldn't clients autoconnect to jack

From: Fons Adriaensen <fons@...> · Date: Monday, March 23, 2009 - 4:54 pm

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 02:43:45PM +0000, Damon Chaplin wrote:
> When an application runs for the first time, I think it should show a

quoted text> configuration dialog allowing the user to choose connections for the

> input & output ports. These can default to the first available ports, so

> most users can simply hit "OK".
That would be perfectly acceptable.

The important thing is that it must be possible

to tell an app *once and for all* not to auto

connect. 
On a more general level, a connection is (almost)

always between two different things. This alone

should be enough to consider connections to be

something that no single app should ever decide

for itself - there is always another side that

should have the same weight in the decision.

Since jack's design does not allow apps to refuse

a connection, the decent thing to do for an app

is not to connect.
Ciao,
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FA
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