[Fedora-music-list] Thoughts on spin tools

Hi all, I been thinking about what we need to do differentiate the audio spin from a just a collection of audio packages in addition to the spins we already have. We really need some kind of UI or set of tools which tries to tie everything together, allowing for the coexistence of jack/pulseaudio (or not), multiple sound device configurations and context switching between audio and normal desktop use. I've mapping out such an application and in my travels have come across laditools [1] and kxstudio's cadence [2]. Good to see that there have been some recent efforts in this area. Perhaps we can leverage of these. I'd be really keen to hear other peoples experiences using these tools. I'll start building them locally here when I have the time but personally haven't put them through their paces as yet. We also need to collate all the tips and tricks we've all picked up along the way. Those that can be made generic we can ship in a fedora-audio-tools package. I'll set up a wiki page (in the next week or two) just to record these and we can collate them together later. Here I'm thinking alsa device settings, pulse scripts, qjackctl start/stop scripts: anything that people have had to create themselves to get their systems in a position to be productive for what they want to do. Footnote: some people have made some very valid points to me regarding the audio spin w.r.t pulseaudio. I think if this project is going to be widely accepted we will need to cater for it. Having said that, I can see no reason why we can't ship a minimal audio spin as well, pulseaudio-less sitting on top of a very light DE. The aforementioned tools should ship with this as well. regards, Brendan [1] http://repo.or.cz/w/laditools.git [2] http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/KXStudio:Applications:Cadence