On 4/2/06, John Mulholland <johnmulholland at fastmail.fm> wrote: > 1. Is there anywhere non programmers can suggest an application to be > developed? I am sure there are many non programmers with great ideas > lurking on this list. John, It seems to me that The Internet Archive (www.archive.org) was trying to get something like this going (in their software archive). I saw some proposals there, but they seem to only concern things of interest to The Internet Archive. That being said, one could write the documentation to a program, and then try to entice a programmer to write the corresponding program. (Before you flame me, please realize that I know that this is a rather naive assumption, given that nearly every programmer prefers to dictate the design of the program, write the actual program, and then write the documentation.) As has already been mentioned, we might all do well to use what we already have. I would like some easy way to attach metadata to my samples. (I'm looking at converting my samples to .flac files, attaching relevant tags, and using Beagle to index and search the metadata to solve this particular problem.) So, I would hope that either the specialty music distros would add more non music software, or that we get the most excellent kernel for sound on, say Debian, sometime relatively soon. (Hey DeMuDi developers, I'm glad Synaptic is in the current RC!!!!) I've been lurking on this list for 18 months now, and have learned so much from everyone. Thank you all. Yours, Jon G.
