[Fedora-music-list] jack-dssi-host wrapper?

Hey Callum, In the bugzilla for my hexter review you mentioned that we should make a icon/menu entry for hexter (as symlinked to jack-dssi-host) because it silently fails when jackd isn't running. I agree that this is a problem. The (hopefully temporary) solution I'm proposing is that we either mod jack-dssi-host to complain with a dialog box, or we wrap jack-dssi-host in a script that tests for jackd and pops up a dialog box complaint if required. I think having hexter, whysynth, etc in the menu system is worth this little extra bit of work. Are you (or anybody else) opposed to this solution? Are either of my proposals better than the other? (I say "hopefully temporary" because I'm hopeful that one day the jack api will always be available in the desktop - at least that's what has suggested in monty's fudcon video). AG