On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@linuxaudio.org> wrote:

On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 06:30:17PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:

> The "named server" option requires that an environment variable be set in
> the environment of every client that wants to use a server started with
> this option.

This is simply *not true*.

The server name is an optional parameter for jack_open().
All my own apps that use Jack have a command line option
to select a server.

almost no JACK clients that i have ever read the code for support explicitly naming the server. thus, for the overwhelming majority of users, this remains the effective reality:

If unspecified, use "default" unless $JACK_DEFAULT_SERVER is defined in the process environment.

And any dialog used to configure an
app's audio interface can have a field offering the same
choice (with 'default' or an empty string as the default).

except that there is no reason to even expose this option that exists only for tinkerers and corner cases.

once again, you do not sit on IRC all day answering questions about using this software. if you did, you would see the kind of havoc that this way of thinking causes when your user base looks different than a group of smart, tinkering geeks.

the option does exist, almost entirely to support unusual corner cases and unusual users. there is zero reason to expose it in any software aimed at people who simply want to get things done.