On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 02:43:45PM +0000, Damon Chaplin wrote:
When an application runs for the first time, I think
it should show a
configuration dialog allowing the user to choose connections for the
input & output ports. These can default to the first available ports, so
most users can simply hit "OK".
That would be perfectly acceptable.
The important thing is that it must be possible
to tell an app *once and for all* not to auto
connect.
On a more general level, a connection is (almost)
always between two different things. This alone
should be enough to consider connections to be
something that no single app should ever decide
for itself - there is always another side that
should have the same weight in the decision.
Since jack's design does not allow apps to refuse
a connection, the decent thing to do for an app
is not to connect.
Ciao,
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