[LAU] Default Jack metering (XFCE QJackCTL)

[Tim]

On 10/03/2018 04:00 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 3:41 PM Tim <termtech at rogers.com 
> <mailto:termtech at rogers.com>> wrote:
> 
>     That is why port aliases are SO VERY important and should
>        never be removed from Jack.
> 
> 
> port aliases are an ad-hoc hack.
> 
> the correct solution was added to jack1, but never (AFAIK) to jack2, and 
> that's metadata, along with well-known metadata keys such as "pretty-name".
> 
> port aliases should go away, and be replaced by metadata.
> 

But when you and I last spoke of this, I was disappointed to learn
  that there were no plans to put default information in that meta-data,
  like the information that is provided in those alias names.
So as I understood, the meta-data would be blank by default.
You demonstrated that meta-data does work - but you had to provide
  that information from your own list.

Am I mistaken? Would such information be available by default?

Thanks.
Tim.