#6 Faster patchbay preset selection

Hi!

At first, I'd like to thank you for QJackCtl! I'm a free software coder and QJackCtl helps me to patch my applications together during testing. I simply don't know where I'd be without it - and I don't even mention the regular patching of music players, web browser and so on...

There's one thing I'm unhappy with, though. As I said, I'm using QJackCtl to patch my applications into the audio stream. To do this, I have created several patchbay setups and I regularly switch between them. Unfortunately, there are just too many clicks involved:

• click on QJackCtl's item on the system tray
• click on "Patchbay"
  • select preset
  • click on "Activate"
  • close "Patchbay"
• click on "Connect"
  • click on "Disconnect All"
  • confirm disconnection
  • click "No" several times to prevent QJackCtl from deleting patchbay
    connections
  • close "Connections"
• close QJackCtl
• close tray icon notification

Think of having to go through this procedure several times within a few hours and you know what I'm talking of.

What I'm thinking of is a much faster workflow:

• click on QJackCtl's item on the system tray

• click on special button (or "Patchbay" with a command key like Ctrl)
  to open a window containing all stored patchbay setups

  • select preset
  • click on "Activate" which automatically:
    • activates the new preset
    • disconnects all current connections
    • connects devices according to the new patchbay preset
    • and closes the window
• close QJackCtl

Now, if there also was an option to suppress the "The program will keep running in the ystem tray." icon notifications, I'd be in heaven... :)

Thanks for listening and QJackCtl and all the best from Germany,

Martin

[Peter L Jones]

Part of this I've put into a separate ticket -- I'd be happy with just the quicker disconnect of unwanted connections, I don't need the rest :).

https://sourceforge.net/p/qjackctl/tickets/17/