[LAD] UIs (was Re: send midi message)

Hello Ralf! I don't exactly get the finer points of your argument. You may have gone a little astray in your passion. But why should Linux not have fancy GUIs? I can't use a lot of them right now, but I could do more, if I only got my arse of the ground and persevered in my efforts to set up GNOME and Orca. Fancy is nice. I get "fancy" in other ways and I do like it. Certainly it's nice when apps respect some global settings of yours,but especially in our field, sometimes it's just not on. We are - at the heart - a lot about creativity and user interfaces do shape our workflows and methods. If you want something, that lets you absolutely have your way, then I suppose you'll be back with Csound and high-level audio programming libraries. Granted there are applications, that are fancy and flexible, but it's a hell of a lot to program and it can't apply to everything. and then of course, we always have ideas, when we start something. We - as musicians - have ideas about the kind of music we make and the programmers have ideas about the interfaces they make. In a way that too is a form of art. As a final remark: I do like applications, that adhere to standards and if possible respect global settings. Because in a case like mine - and others -, that too might mean, taht such settings are paramount to making a software accessible/usable. But Linux - as any other OS - is meant to be used and thus has to advertise and move with the times, not only in background technology. And that is as it should be. Warm regards Julien ---------------------------------------- http://juliencoder.de/nama/music.html