14 Sep
2004
14 Sep
'04
10:54 p.m.
Last Tuesday 14 September 2004 14:30, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki was like:
I'm not sure that it is really true that
ecasound's textual syntax is
less intuitive than a complex GUI like ardour's. Of course we all have
different minds that all work differently. But, I think the dominance of
GUI-ness mouse-clickiness in the commercial software world of
xerox-apple-microsoft and the free software world of gnome-kde is at
least in part a false supremacy. Though it may be the way the majority
of computer users have been shepherded into thinking of what it is to
interact with a computer, I don't think that is necessarily because the
GUI+mouse paradigm is the best or even the most natural. At least not
for everyone.
Equally I have a lot of love and respect for ecasound and it's not often you
say that about an application. We do all have different minds. When I'm
working on my geeky own, ecasound can be good. However, I find that once I'm
working with the pressure of other people, it's point-and-clicksville for me.
My remarks should be taken in the context of having just decided to actually
look at Ardour, after deliberately avoiding it for the last year or so, and
discovering that it's a wicked application. I'm not dissing any other
software, let's face it, given a C handbook and a text editor, I can make a
glorified 'Hello World' and that's about it.
More power to the collective coding arm!
(now there's a visualisation for you)
cheers
tim hall