[LAD] [LAU] [ANN] LADI Session Handler - Preview 1

[Florent Berthaut]

Patrick Shirkey a écrit :
> 
> 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.

> 
> 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