Patrick Shirkey a écrit :
>
> On 09/02/2009 06:48 AM, Florent Berthaut wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> i'm happy to learn about this new direction for lash. It looks really
>> promising.
>> The goal: "collaborate with x11 wm ..." reminded of an idea i had this
>> summer during the RMLL ("rencontres mondiales du logiciel libre") while
>> talking with musicians of the windows world.
>> They told me that they liked the gnu approach ("one application for one
>> task"), that it was great to be able to change a part of the workflow
>> independently. They also obvioulsy liked the idea of lash, being able to
>> save and recall a session.
>>
>> But what they worried about (especially ableton live users) was the fact
>> that a great number of windows could become complicated to handle
>> compared to single window applications as live.
>>
>> So the idea of remembering the windows positions is a good point but i
>> think another interesting point would be to have an application that
>> grabs all the music applications' windows and tiles them automatically
>> (of course with the possibilities of resizing and moving each tile)
>> So when you restore a session all the windows are accessible at once.
>> This would be a sort of musical window manager and would allow to
>> combine the advantage of a single window application with the advantages
>> of multiple interconnected applications.
>>
>> Perhaps it already exists, if it does please let me know ;)
>>
>>
>
>
> I have had this idea for a while and your diea would compliment it very
> well.
>
> Basically the window manager should provide a hook for the app to have a
> jack port on the title bar. This would then allow the window manager to
> control teh layout and location of all apps with a jack port.
> Alternatively it could also use ladish to provide the wrapper to all the
> ladish/jack apps.
Yes that sounds great.
>
> I know it is early days since Nedko just released his updates to the
> system but I think we have an opportunity to provide this integration
> from a window management perspective. In my mind it is a logical and
> inevitable feature that will give desktop users a game like graphical
> management option they can play with and get excited about.
>
>
Exactly.
Regards
Florent
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