On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 01:53:50 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: >On Sun, Aug 02, 2015 at 01:18:37PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> Humans have different strategies, if a women asks her man to get the >> cucumber out of the refrigerator, it's said that it often happens >> that the man doesn't see it. > >I would think that he is shocked and stunned and recovering from a >bruised ego is the reason. He does see it subconsiously, though. I was serious, hadn't such a joke in mind, but OTOH even this joke explains that a human brain often doesn't work as wanted. Anyway, no man should suffer from self-doubts caused by a large green vegetable. Small but on the other hand _not green_ IMO is better than large _and green_". Regarding colours ... On Sun, 2 Aug 2015 10:11:21 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >I've no clue how universal it could be made to work, but forget the >chips designation by model/device type unless theres more than one >detected by the system, and come right out and say its the blue jack >that is the mic input, the orange jack is the line output. etc etc. Germans from my age, born in 1966, often started making music with this instrument: http://www.eichwaelder.de/Altes/hohner-clarina12-12.JPG After a while we dropped it and used this instrument: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melodica#/media/File:Melodica.jpg Is jackd, resp. qjackctl a toy or a tool? I'm not against user-friendliness of tools, but tools also need to fit to growing users experiences. I'm 48 years old and regarding the keys of both music instruments, I would be able to play the second children instrument without issues, but it would take a few minutes to play the first children instrument with the coloured keys. Idiotproof not necessarily is functional. Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
