Presentation + A debian-based for audio creation and production, stage technics and video blend (or "the future of TangoStudio")

[rosea.grammostola]

>>> What you want here is to provide the users the best technical
>>> environment to get his work done. I think a much better solution would
>>> be a something like a wizard that examines your system installation,
>>> educates the user about the findings, and then does specific
>>> recommendations (ideally with "fix this" buttons to just do so).
>>>
>>> Things that I imagine that this wizard could do would include:
>>>
>>> * "The pulseaudio seems to be running. This can cause the following
>>> problems<...> do you want to a) disable pulseaudio in your user
>>> profile, b) remove it from your system c) do nothing
>>> * "Your Gnome System Menu is missing the following entries. Do you
>>> want to add them?"
>>> * "We recommend installing the following applications:<app> <purpose>"
>>> * "You are not running a -rt kernel: do you want to install and reboot?"
>>> * "Your system needs special configuration to reduce the system
>>> latency, do you want me to do the following changes to /etc/...?"
>>>
>>> I think you get the idea. That would leave the choice to the user and
>>> still be very functional and easy to use.
>>>
>>> BTW, the idea is not really novel. See for example the powertop
>>> application, which makes such suggestions (albeit in text mode) about
>>> power management to save battery time.
>>>
>>> I guess that would be an interesting application for a Debian
>>> multimedia blend.
>>
>> +1
>> Now we "only" need somebody who writes this tool. :-)
>
>
> There is such a configuration script
> http://www.wiki.linuxmusicians.com/doku.php?id=system_configuration#quickscan
>
>
> And raboof started with a GUI
> http://code.google.com/p/realtimeconfigquickscan/

^^^
Cc Raboof ;)