Idea #9044: GTK Frontend for Jack Audio Kit

Written by monchichi the 24 May 08 at 20:20. Category: Multimedia.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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Someone should program a GTK+ GUI for Jack. Currently there's a nifty little QT4 program called qjackctl that does this quite well, but it would be a breeze for an able programmer to whip up a GNOME program that has this kind of functionality.

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Eldmannen wrote on the 25 May 08 at 01:29

What should it be able to do?
How would it be useful?

Sidney wrote on the 25 May 08 at 10:49

I'm for your idea, but I have a problem with your wording ("it would be a breeze for an able programmer"): Either you are a programmer yourself, then why don't you do it if it's "a breeze"? Or you aren't; then why do you expect this to be so easy? If you can't do it yourself, how can you know how easy this is and how long it will take a developer?

monchichi wrote on the 7 Jun 08 at 01:17

Eldmannen: It should be able to control jack-- which sound card,how many channels, sample rate, realtime, priority, have a patchbay for midi and jack connections, have controls for the jack timer, etc. Basically all of the functionality that qjackctl has, but for gnome. This is the only program I use that uses the QT tookit.

Sidney: I'm not an able programmer. Thus it would not be a breeze for me. I do some scripting as my job requires, but I don't know any high-level programming. But here's how I know it would be a breeze for an able programmer: most of the work is already done for you. The jack API is well documented, the qjackctl source code is readily available, and it's just a matter of creating a GUI to control it. I'll give it a shot, but with my limited programming knowledge the best I can do is use gtk-ruby bindings and try and manipulate jack using ruby somehow.

olskar wrote on the 16 Aug 08 at 21:50

Fully support this, it is a must for real musicians and a gnomefrontend would be nice

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