[LAD] [Jack-Devel] more jack/qjackctl madness

[MarcO'Chapeau]

On Sun, 17 May 2009 13:11:23 +0200, Fons Adriaensen <fons at kokkinizita.net>
wrote:
> The only argument pro using dbus I'v heard so far
> is that it permits run-time discovery of new backends,
> internal clients and their parameters.

That's unfair. Read the archives. There are more arguments to that.

> Dbus assumes there is a local login, without that
> there is no session bus, and things don't work.
> Most of my audio machines are headless, there is
> no local login, but I still expect things to work,
> and that, IMHO, is not unreasonable.

It is not unreasonable. No one said you *had* to use dbus. This needs
fixing and until it is fixed, packagers should be advised to disable dbus.

> If it doesn't add any functionality that can be
> provided in simpler ways, and if it doesn't work
> in some perfectly legal use cases, there is no
> reason for having it. 

The code for the legacy behavior might make jack a few lines lighter, but
have you looked at qjackctl's code ? Starting jack via some pseudo command
line scripting using Qt and c++ is not something I'd like to maintain. The
thing is, Rui had no choice since it is the only way one could build a
control application with the legacy jack. That's one of the things a
control API is meant to change.

Marc-Olivier Barre.
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