Subject: Re: [LAU] [LAD] [ANN] LADI Session Handler - Preview 1

From: Florent Berthaut <florentberthaut@...> · Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2009 - 6:54 am

Patrick Shirkey a écrit :

quoted text>

> On 09/02/2009 06:48 AM, Florent Berthaut wrote:

>> Hi everyone,

>>

>> i'm happy to learn about this new direction for lash. It looks really

>> promising.

>> The goal: "collaborate with x11 wm ..." reminded of an idea i had this

>> summer during the RMLL ("rencontres mondiales du logiciel libre") while

>> talking with musicians of the windows world.

>> They told me that they liked the gnu approach ("one application for one

>> task"), that it was great to be able to change a part of the workflow

>> independently. They also obvioulsy liked the idea of lash, being able to

>>    save and recall a session.

>>

>> But what they worried about (especially ableton live users) was the fact

>> that a great number of windows could become complicated to handle

>> compared to single window applications as live.

>>

>> So the idea of remembering the windows positions is a good point but i

>> think another interesting point would be to have an application that

>> grabs all the music applications' windows and tiles them automatically

>> (of course with the possibilities of resizing and moving each tile)

>> So when you restore a session all the windows are accessible at once.

>> This would be a sort of musical window manager and would allow to

>> combine the advantage of a single window application with the advantages

>> of multiple interconnected applications.

>>

>> Perhaps it already exists, if it does please let me know ;)

>>

>>

>

>

> I have had this idea for a while and your diea would compliment it very

> well.

>

> Basically the window manager should provide a hook for the app to have a

> jack port on the title bar. This would then allow the window manager to

> control teh layout and location of all apps with a jack port.

> Alternatively it could also use ladish to provide the wrapper to all the

> ladish/jack apps.
Yes that sounds great.
>

quoted text> I know it is early days since Nedko just released his updates to the

> system but I think we have an opportunity to provide this integration

> from a window management perspective. In my mind it is a logical and

> inevitable feature that will give desktop users a game like graphical

> management option they can play with and get excited about.

>

> 
Exactly.
Regards
Florent
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