On Monday 12 September 2005 16:03, Dave Phillips wrote: > Greetings: > > While I was working on the JACK article I was reminded how much I rely > on is Rui Capela's QJackCtl. I haven't touched JACK at the command-line > in a long while, thanks to QJC. > > So I was thinking about the complexity of configuring ALSA and I > started wondering what I'd want to see in a more complete ALSA > configuration utility. I'm just rambling out loud here, so feel free to > add and comment: [snipped] Actually I can't think of anything to add right now, but I've saved this for later reference. Alsaconf's interface is and has been awful for ages. I would just put in a vote for building in such a way as to make a GTK2 interface possible. Although a QT interface would be perfectly acceptable, in fact anything has to better than ncurses. I started work on a PyGTK model of this a while ago, but got distracted. I don't have the skills to implement the hardware configuration stuff anyway, but it would be pretty easy to wrap utilities that would be normally available from the command line. Call the backend AlsaCtl - it's sort of obvious isn't it? and then you can append the appropriate acronym for the front-end. The difficulty will be avoiding a massive dependency chain doing it my way, that's if you want to wash the dishes as well. ;) I shall doubtless leave the coding up to people who know what they're doing, but it's something I have been pondering for a while and I'd be happy to put some effort into making it happen. -- cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim
