On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Tim E. Real <termtech@rogers.com> wrote:

On Thursday, May 12, 2016 07:27:40 AM Paul Davis wrote:
> Port aliases were almost never used for anything, and the current build of
> qjackctl has support for them removed.

No!
If you are thinking of this, please don't remove alias support from Jack!
Or at least replace it with some default metadata containing similar
'friendly' port names, as I had requested some time ago.

Apparently you're not on the jack-devel mailing list.

Port aliases were removed.

Port pretty-names have a standard URI, and have since before the metadata API was implemented. Anyone can define metadata URIs (keys). A few are standard, as is

Qjackctl supports all this already.