On 09/03/2009 11:27 AM, michael noble wrote:
If I'm understanding the latter half of this
thread correctly it is
exactly what I've been wanting in a window manager for a gnu/linux
based daw for a long time - a visual patching based desktop and window
manager.
Zoom out and you get a patchage like overview of all windows between
which you can make connections. You can then zoom into each app object
to whichever degree you wish using some combination of modifier key
and mouse wheel over the object, make application adjustments and then
zoom back out to the overall canvas. I think we inherited the desktop
approach from graphical design, where the notion of bounded workspaces
makes more sense. I'd rather my desktop were an unbounded extended
"canvas" of inter-patchable windows with something like LADIsh and
JACK underpinning session interconnection and management.
But who has the resources to pull something like that off?
This zoom in/out functionality already exists in KDE and is also a part
of the apple desktop.
We don't currently have a wm or desktop environemtn that communicates
with jack.
I'm am very interested in seeing this happen and I think it can be tied
into the lash/ladish system too.
Cheers
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd