20 Dec
2007
20 Dec
'07
9:49 a.m.
On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 23:55 +0100, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
By 'desktop level' I mean that level of a
system that tries to be
friendly to users who don't know what they are doing, by hiding
reality and by trying to guess what they want and getting it wrong
most of the time :-) The typical Windoze / KDE / Gnome thing.
If this exercise of making jackd use dbus goes in that direction,
I'll resist :-)
Fons, this was my initial reaction to Nedko's proposal as well. However,
it turns out that its more of a gut reaction than one based on fact.
Nedko's patches make 2 things change:
1) no more use of printf or its cousins for *ANY* output
from jackd
2) make it possible for a dbus-related control system to
start and stop JACK easily
I think everyone would agree that avoid direct output to stdout/stderr
is a good idea - it allows many useful things to be accomplished without
changing the default from being "put it on stdout/stderr".
The changes in (2) are relatively trivial and do not affect current use
of jackd at all.
--p