[LAD] [ANN] IR: LV2 Convolution Reverb

[Jörn Nettingsmeier]

On 02/22/2011 01:45 PM, Nick Copeland wrote:
>  > ATM it doesn't even provide network transparency. Which means you can't
>  > even do the equivalent of ssh -X.
>
> Does anybody even use this feature anymore?
>

fwiw, 50% of my audio work happens on a laptop that i use to ssh into my 
audio workstation. (i find a laptop with wlan to be the tranzport as god 
intended it to be :-D).

about 80% of the unix systems administration i have done in the past 
happened over ssh, and i always had xforwarding enabled to be able to 
quickly start xosview or other metering tools.

x bashing is all very cool, but it's what we have and it works.

i wonder:  you are obviously willing to design for future graphical 
abstraction layers which are not yet available. good, but possibly a lot 
of extra (guess-)work. will it be that much worse to just design for x11 
today, and invest some extra work to port to future graphics layers in a 
few years? well-designed software should be easy to port to new 
graphical paradigms, and being lazy today prevents over-engineering.
heck, if your software kicks ass, chances are other people will do the 
porting ;)

fons is obviously being grumpy, but i can't help noticing that we've had 
an awful lot of "innovation" in linux lately that may or may not prove 
useful in the long term, but it definitely did invalidate a lot of 
sysadmin expertise. nobody seems to be factoring that into the equation.
and it's definitely true that most of the innovative replacements to 
traditional unix mechanisms we have seen are focusing on single-user 
desktop or mobile computing. if your usecase differs, you get many 
headaches without much tangible benefit.

so hooray for getting rid of decades of x11 cruft, but let's not throw 
out the baby with the bathwater (even though it's biodegradable).