Multimedia Menu

[Scott Lavender]

2011/1/6 Tobiasz Karoń <unfa00 at gmail.com>

> Maybe instead of "plugins" section, it could be named "sound processors"
> and instead of "production" there could be "sequencers". I'm just looking
> for better names for those two sections. What do you think?
>
> W dniu 6 stycznia 2011 11:38 użytkownik Tobiasz Karoń <unfa00 at gmail.com>napisał:
>
> I agree.
>> That would make getting to the app you need much easier.
>>
>> 2011/1/3 Mike Holstein <mikeh789 at gmail.com>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Filipe Lopes <falktx at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi there
>>>>
>>>> I'm sharing an idea that I think can help UbuntuStudio.
>>>>
>>>> Currently the Multimedia menu (audio) is too big that doesn't even fit
>>>> on the screen...
>>>> In KXStudio, I divided this menu into more sub-categories, not just
>>>> audio and video production.
>>>>
>>>> Here's my proposal for new sub-categories:
>>>>
>>>> --- Audio Plugins
>>>> stuff that is not able to play patterns or sequences of data, only
>>>> generate sound, also plugins hosts and mastering stuff
>>>> examples: yoshimi, phasex, amsynth, calfjackhost, jamin.
>>>>
>>>> --- Audio Production
>>>> stuff that is able to save/load projects, patterns or sequences
>>>> examples: seq24, rosegarden, qtractor.
>>>>
>>>> --- Audio Tools
>>>> other stuff that doesnt fit in production or plugins, like patchbays,
>>>> but are not hardware specific (that goes into 'Hardware Configuration')
>>>> examples: patchage, jack-keyboard, gjacktransport
>>>>
>>>> --- Disc Production
>>>> apps that can manage/create cds and dvds. there are a lot of tools for
>>>> this, thus s special submenu for it.
>>>> examples: devede, qdvdauthor, dvdstyler.
>>>>
>>>> --- Hardware Configuration
>>>> apps to configure hardware, or manage jack
>>>> examples: hdspconf, qjackctl
>>>>
>>>> --- Video Production
>>>> apps that manage video, and possibly audio as well.
>>>> examples: xjadeo, kdenlive, openshot, pitivi
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What do you think?
>>>>
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>>> HEY, great idea... theres also a little glitch that happens when i use
>>> the smaller menu in the gnome panel, the little icon instead of the
>>> "applications - places - system" button. when i have this smaller menu
>>> button, scrolling through the applications that dont fit on the screen
>>> becomes even more challenging. i'll offer to help implement this if the
>>> process is as simple as i assume it is...
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>> http://opensourcemusician.libsyn.com/
>>> http://wnclug.ourproject.org/
>>>
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>>
>>
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>> Tobiasz *unfa* Karoń
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The Debian Multimedia Team appears to be working on this as well [1].

If they can find a systemic way to address this issue I believe it would
provide a more viable method than laboriously hacking the ubuntustudio-menu
package as we have done in the past [2].

Regards,
ScottL

[1]
http://www.mail-archive.com/pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org/msg07029.html
[2]
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-dev/ubuntustudio/ubuntustudio-menu/annotate/head%3A/applications.menu
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