UbuntuStudio controls redesign

[Brian David]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Fritz Meissner <meissner.fritz at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 29 March 2010 19:51, Ricardo Lameiro <ricardolameiro at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello everyone.
> > I had some ideas growing about the ubuntustudio controls. to make it more
> > easy to work with and expand it.
> >
> > I made some sketch about it
> > the Inkskape SVG link
> https://files.one.ubuntu.com/q19pn6SnQ8W3SuEIVr2QfA
> > The PDF version https://files.one.ubuntu.com/XG8iE4f-SPy04uiFb9EFPw
> >
> Ricardo, I can't manage to login download those files, even though I
> have a Launchpad account. Not sure why. However, I had recently had
> some thoughts about Ubuntu Studio Controls myself.
>
> Firstly, I think that it should have a help button that gives some
> guidance on what the controls do, and what would by appropriate
> settings for typical setups. My experience is that many users
> (including myself) have little knowledge of this, and misinformation
> is so widespread that it is difficult to educate oneself. Having at
> least basic explanations that are reliable would help to prevent the
> problems that people have which are not caused by Studio (which would
> probably work fine if left on the default settings) but by people
> getting the settings wrong.
>
> Secondly, I have recently seen rather exasperated comments (from
> someone that I respect as an authority) that the mystique surrounding
> "nice" settings is misplaced and that it has virtually nothing to do
> with audio performance. If this is the case, then should that setting
> not be removed from the Controls ?
>
> Fritz
>
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I'd be interested to hear these comments, because from my understanding,
niceness has a lot to do with audio performance.  Or, more generally, it has
a lot to with the performance of any process.  By setting the niceness of
programs run by users in the Audio group to -19, you are letting the kernel
know that those programs take precedence over most others when deciding how
to allocate CPU resources.  How would this not help performance?  If this is
misguided, then it would definitely be good to know.

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-Brian David
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