Presentation + A debian-based for audio creation and production, stage technics and video blend (or "the future of TangoStudio")

[rosea.grammostola]

On 11/12/2012 01:45 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:26:14PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>>> We discussed the option of having conflicts in metapackages several
>>> times.  If I remember correctly the main drawback is that users who
>>> really really want to have pulseaudio need to deinstall the metapackage
>>> which is not always what you want.
>>
>> TBH, I do not think that a conflicts in the meta package is the right
>> technical solution.
>
> As I said we did not had any request for this and thus it is not
> implemented.  Perhaps it's just because this is not the right technical
> solution.  In any case each previous discussion starting with an initial
> request of the feature ended up with the conclusion that it is not
> needed.
>
>> What you want here is to provide the users the best technical
>> environment to get his work done. I think a much better solution would
>> be a something like a wizard that examines your system installation,
>> educates the user about the findings, and then does specific
>> recommendations (ideally with "fix this" buttons to just do so).
>>
>> Things that I imagine that this wizard could do would include:
>>
>>   *  "The pulseaudio seems to be running. This can cause the following
>> problems<...>  do you want to a) disable pulseaudio in your user
>> profile, b) remove it from your system c) do nothing
>>   * "Your Gnome System Menu is missing the following entries. Do you
>> want to add them?"
>>   * "We recommend installing the following applications:<app>  <purpose>"
>>   * "You are not running a -rt kernel: do you want to install and reboot?"
>>   * "Your system needs special configuration to reduce the system
>> latency, do you want me to do the following changes to /etc/...?"
>>
>> I think you get the idea. That would leave the choice to the user and
>> still be very functional and easy to use.
>>
>> BTW, the idea is not really novel. See for example the powertop
>> application, which makes such suggestions (albeit in text mode) about
>> power management to save battery time.
>>
>> I guess that would be an interesting application for a Debian multimedia blend.
>
> +1
> Now we "only" need somebody who writes this tool. :-)


There is such a configuration script
http://www.wiki.linuxmusicians.com/doku.php?id=system_configuration#quickscan

And raboof started with a GUI
http://code.google.com/p/realtimeconfigquickscan/

I wouldn't be suprised if AVLinux and KXStudio has something like that 
included

\r

Cc Falktx, GMaq



>
> Kind regards
>
>         Andreas.
>
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