Debian Multimedia Menus (discussion)

[rosea.grammostola]

On 12/07/2010 04:33 PM, rosea.grammostola wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When working with Multimedia / Proaudio on Linux | Debian, you have a 
> lot of small packages installed pretty soon (one task one tool). With 
> as consequence a very long list in the menu part for multimedia 
> packages. Ubuntu Studio tries to make the situation better by 
> providing a 'audioproduction' and 'videoproduction' menu. In my view 
> this isn't always a good solution cause some packages are in the wrong 
> part, displayed twice and most of the installations do still have a 
> long list of applications.
>
> A quick look at Tango Studio showed that they have more menu parts, 
> one for audio mixing plugins and synths etc.
>
> http://tangostudio.tuxfamily.org/images/stories/tangostudio-karmasutra.png 
>
>
>
> I thought, isn't there a way to make a better menu by the Debian 
> Multimedia Team? A bit like Ubuntu Studio has done e.g. an extra menu 
> package you can install if you want to do Multimedia production, but 
> then better?
>
> What do you think?
>
> Best regards,
>
> \r


Hi,

Got no comments so far...

This is what I'm talking about (brainstorming):

Before: http://img37.imageshack.us/i/desk1007.png/

After: http://img141.imageshack.us/i/desk1008.png/


I split up Multimedia (players) and Sound & Video (production)

http://img11.imageshack.us/i/desk1009.png/


At this point I have 7 extra entries in Sound & Video

   1. Audio Editing (Editing, Mixing, Mastering: Audacity, jack-rack,
      lv2rack, guitarix etc )
   2. JACK (Jack and Alsa tools like qjackctl, japa, jack_mixer and
      software mixers for alsa audio cards for example)
   3. MIDI (Midi tools like Vkeybd, qsynth)
   4. Musician (Musescore notation editor, solfege, Chordata, gtklick etc)
   5. Recording (DAW: ardour, qtractor)
   6. Synth (phasex, yoshimi, puredata, Qutecsound etc.)
   7. Video Editing (pitivi, xjadeo, kino etc)

I tried to keep it as simple as possible, not to many entries and pretty 
broad areas cause every Debian Audio production app should be able to be 
entered in a certain entry...

If we want this, this means we should make a DebianMultimedia menu like 
the Ubuntustudio-menu package. Moreover, we should make little additions 
to the Desktop files of the Multimedia applications and add new categories.

A other thing that has to be thought of, is how this all applies to 
other WMs like KDE, XFCE etc. All though, if you create a 
DebianMultimedia-menu, people are free to install it or not...

Waiting for your response.

Best regards,

\r






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