Re: [FFADO-devel] M-Audio ProFire 610 support patch

[Arnold K. <ar...@ar...>]

Hi,

On Tuesday 13 October 2009 10:12:03 Adrian Knoth wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 09:43:21AM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote:
> > > Sorry for the delay in responding...  I have tried the Saffire_Dice
> > > mixer
> > Well, if the VU's are flickering, then its working:-)
> Is dice-eap required for the Saffire_Dice mixer to work? On my
> Alesis-io14, it does nothing, but the device also reports false on
> Device::EAP::supportsEAP.

Well, the DICE interfaces is needed for the Saffire_Dice mixer, yes. But the 
widgets MatrixMixer and CrossbarRouter just implement guis for the dbus-
interfaces of the same name. So if you device exports such an interface, these 
widgets can be included in your mixer.

> [GUI]
> > Currently it takes up an awful lot of space. I am thinking about
> > reducing that...
> Though I've never seen it, I usually think Linux GUIs are mostly too
> large, like developed for the blinds ;) Taoma-10 for the basefont, as
> done on Windows, is probably a good starting point for GUI design.

Actually font-size is up to the user, not the developer. All layouts in gui 
should be dynamic to adopt to the style settings of the users.
So if the apps look like developed for blind people on your pc, its most 
probably because you did set your font size to "for blind people".

Note that actual blind people don't use graphics if they don't have too...

The reason the matrix-mixer is so big is simply that 18x16 dials take up some 
space when you want them bigger than 5x5px. And the additional row- and 
column-headers take up space too.

Arnold