[CM] No Auto Connect

[Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> So are you suggesting something like MUS_JACK_PORTS_TO_AUTOCONNECT_TO in 
> addition to MUS_JACK_DONT_AUTOCONNECT? I think thats too complicated, but I'm 
> not sure. Well, its not very difficult to implement though.
>
> (A third thing is also how many input and output ports should sndlib create. 
> Like it is now, it just creates the number of output ports and input ports to 
> fit the number of physical ports.)

Yes, of course. As you say probably overkill in most cases, well, except 
of for when you actually need the options...

>> I have not done a census of Jack applications but my feeling is that most 
>> don't connect by default.

<I'll take a closer look when I'm more awake but it looks like you are 
right and many apps autoconnect - filters like jack-rack don't, some 
autoconnect outputs but not inputs, some have options to change the name 
of the ports and some have options for autoconnection or not>

> I don't know why they don't. Its very irritating. Probably because it require 
> tenths of lines of code to add autoconnect, and quite an amount of digging in 
> the jacklib documentation...

It depends on which application. For example, freqtweak[*]. I usually feed 
it from some other sound producing application, so for me it would be 
irritating to have it connect to the soundcard inputs (so that I have to 
disconnect it and then connect it to whatever I want it connected to). So 
it depends on app and typical usage and that will change from app to app 
and from user to user. Hence I think options are good, what is extra 
operations for one user is less operations for another. Just my opinion, 
of course.

-- Fernando

[*] freqtweak does autoconnect outputs... but not inputs