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On 12/07/2010 04:33 PM, rosea.grammostola wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4CFE53C3.4020202@gmail.com" type="cite">Hi, <br>
<br>
When working with Multimedia / Proaudio on Linux | Debian, you
have a lot of small packages installed pretty soon (one task one
tool). With as consequence a very long list in the menu part for
multimedia packages. Ubuntu Studio tries to make the situation
better by providing a 'audioproduction' and 'videoproduction'
menu. In my view this isn't always a good solution cause some
packages are in the wrong part, displayed twice and most of the
installations do still have a long list of applications. <br>
<br>
A quick look at Tango Studio showed that they have more menu
parts, one for audio mixing plugins and synths etc. <br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://tangostudio.tuxfamily.org/images/stories/tangostudio-karmasutra.png">http://tangostudio.tuxfamily.org/images/stories/tangostudio-karmasutra.png</a>
<br>
<br>
<br>
I thought, isn't there a way to make a better menu by the Debian
Multimedia Team? A bit like Ubuntu Studio has done e.g. an extra
menu package you can install if you want to do Multimedia
production, but then better? <br>
<br>
What do you think? <br>
<br>
Best regards, <br>
<br>
\r <br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<br>
Hi,<br>
<br>
Got no comments so far...<br>
<br>
This is what I'm talking about (brainstorming):<br>
<br>
Before: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://img37.imageshack.us/i/desk1007.png/">http://img37.imageshack.us/i/desk1007.png/</a><br>
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After: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://img141.imageshack.us/i/desk1008.png/">http://img141.imageshack.us/i/desk1008.png/</a><br>
<br>
<br>
I split up Multimedia (players) and Sound & Video (production)<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://img11.imageshack.us/i/desk1009.png/">http://img11.imageshack.us/i/desk1009.png/</a><br>
<br>
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At this point I have 7 extra entries in Sound & Video<br>
<br>
<ol>
<li>Audio Editing (Editing, Mixing, Mastering: Audacity,
jack-rack, lv2rack, guitarix etc )</li>
<li>JACK (Jack and Alsa tools like qjackctl, japa, jack_mixer and
software mixers for alsa audio cards for example)</li>
<li>MIDI (Midi tools like Vkeybd, qsynth)</li>
<li>Musician (Musescore notation editor, solfege, Chordata,
gtklick etc)</li>
<li>Recording (DAW: ardour, qtractor)</li>
<li>Synth (phasex, yoshimi, puredata, Qutecsound etc.)</li>
<li>Video Editing (pitivi, xjadeo, kino etc)</li>
</ol>
I tried to keep it as simple as possible, not to many entries and
pretty broad areas cause every Debian Audio production app should be
able to be entered in a certain entry...<br>
<br>
If we want this, this means we should make a DebianMultimedia menu
like the Ubuntustudio-menu package. Moreover, we should make little
additions to the Desktop files of the Multimedia applications and
add new categories.<br>
<br>
A other thing that has to be thought of, is how this all applies to
other WMs like KDE, XFCE etc. All though, if you create a
DebianMultimedia-menu, people are free to install it or not...<br>
<br>
Waiting for your response.<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
\r<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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