[linux-audio-dev] Re: Hello and Python bindings for LADSPA

[Steve Harris]

On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 03:38:59PM +0100, Jono Bacon wrote:
> Hi Lars,
> 
> >It does "just work", you just get generic GUIs instead of
> >plugin-specific ones.
> 
> But surely the GUI is bound to a certain list of plugins. So, when we
> get LADSPA support in Jokosher, because we need to make the GUI for
> the plugins, we need to basically decide on a list of included plugins
> and create the GUIs. Surely this limits the ability for the user to
> just install a plugin pack as we won't have GUI for those plugins?
> Correct me if I am wrong on this, I am still very new around here. :P
> 
> Oh, and I read that someone was working on an XML DTD for plugin GUIs
> - what is the current progress on this? I could not find anything out
> about it on the LADSPA site.

It has been proposed several times, but it's not a particularly good idea
IMHO. I was in favour of it for a bit.

- Steve