>> Yeah, I think more needs to be done here to make it more obvious. In >> actual fact a usability "improvement" was to default to the "Sinks" tab >> if no streams are running, but in actual fact if it started with a blank >> pane and some text saying "No active streams. This pane will list blah, >> blah blah" would actually be better for first time users etc. > > To me, the PA metaphor seems really suited to a directed graph visualization -- > boxes and arrows kind of stuff. Sources and sinks all get to be boxes, and links > between them between them get to be ... arrows. (Someone has to have thought of > this before.) I think Conduit implements a similar GUI. This was mentioned in an earlier thread, and I too think this is a great idea. I was planning on putting together some mockups to start working through the details of what this would look like. Once I have something, I'll be sure to post it here and would definitely appreciate any feedback. Cheers, Chris Hamilton