Common settings app for Ubuntu Studio

[Andrew Hunter]

Luis de Bethencourt wrote:
> Since I know that in C file handling (because of how string handling
> works) is hell. I will look this evening how python file handling
> works...

Python's file handeling is actually very good. I respectfully put 
forward that we use python for this application.

I would also like to get a spec drafted on LP targeted for Hardy.

> 
> if (luis == likes)
> {
>    do code;
> } else {
>    switch the responsability to an other person;
> }
> 
> luis de bethencourt
> 
> pd: sorry for the geekness... ;)
> 
> On Nov 23, 2007 9:17 AM, ttoine at ttoine.net <ttoine at ttoine.net> wrote:
>> Cory,
>>
>> Two good ideas would be with this little setup app:
>> - "fix" the sound card number (alsa order, hw0, hw1, etc...) for people
>> having several sound cards (ie motherboard sound card + pci sound card);
>> - enabling access to firewire (both for video cam and sound card), with
>> adding user to group "disk"
>>
>> This is for me the two things that can bother people using Ubuntu Studio
>> and don't want/know what to edit and how.
>>
>> Toine
>>
>>
>>
>> Cory K. a écrit :
>>
>>> Hi all.
>>>
>>> Luke and I were throwing around the idea of a little app for common
>>> settings that Ubuntu Studio users would like to have access to.
>>>
>>> It would have to be a app that ran as sudo. We would call it
>>> "ubuntustudio-controls"
>>>
>>> We would have to get together a list of common things that users usually
>>> edit by hand.
>>>
>>> One I can think of are in the limits.conf file. The "memlock" setting
>>> where it would be specific to the users system, depending on their
>>> amount of RAM. The "rtprio 99" and "nice -10" settings in limits.conf I
>>> think are static for the most part and we can continue to set those for
>>> the users and forget it.
>>>
>>> Any others?
>>>
>>> Anyone out there other than someone on the current dev team wanna help
>>> us tackle this? Now I must say this is just a app for common settings.
>>> Something to use a GUI to edit text files that you normally have to hunt
>>> for. We're not out to make a app that will be some billion setting monster.
>>>
>>> So throw out some ideas. :)
>>>
>>> -Cory \m/
>>>
>>>
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