Atte Andr? Jensen: > > Hi > > I often heard that it's considered bad when clients automatically auto > connect it's outputs to jack. I agree, mostly since: > > 1) This makes routing through other software before output difficult > 2) The patchbay in qjackctl makes it easy to make auto connects anyways > > But could anyone point me to some explanation from the devs (Paul Davis > for instance) of why this is considered bad? > This is a design fault in jack. Jack should by default always autoconnect new ports to physical in/outs when they are created. (first created port is connected to the first physical port, and so on) In addition, a jackd command line option to turn autoconnect off is required for those who (for good reasons) don't want that behaviour, or those who want to autonnect to a different client than the client handling the physical in/outs. And there should also be an option which turns autoconnect off for specific ports (i.e. an extra argument for jack_create_port). I think this would have pleased everyone. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
