[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #9920: BSynth upgrade
- From: "pulkomandy" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 07:34:53 -0000
#9920: BSynth upgrade
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Reporter: Pete | Owner: korli
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Kits/Midi Kit | Version: R1/alpha4.1
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 1 | Platform: All
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Comment (by pulkomandy):
I don't see any difference between sound-fonts and truetype fonts (hence
the name ;)) and I think they should work the same way. We have some fonts
packaged in our repos because it is a convenient way to install them, and
because some other apps may depend on them. But, there should also be
support for non-packaged fonts in /boot/system/non-packaged/data.
Apps can use the new BPathFinder API to look for font files in all
relevant directories, and ideally each app would allow picking a custom
soudfont file. That part will work ok once apps are updated to use
BPathFinder, but it leaves us with two problems:
* Legacy apps won't use BPathFinder (this is a new API introduced with
package managemet), and even worse, they may still use the hardcoded
B_SYNTH_DIRECTORY. We should make sure there is a symlink to a soundfont
at the expected place there. Any soundfont will do, this is legacy support
only and does not need to be configurable. The default soundfont package
can provide the symlink.
* We still want a "no-brainer" way to play MIDI files for example in
MidiPlayer without the need for configuring anything. This can be made
configurable with a settings file, symlink, preference panel or whatever;
but there must still be a fallback so that you can play MIDI files on a
fresh Haiku install. For this, we need at least one packaged soundfont on
which the Haiku package can depend, and we need a default value in the
settings file or in BSynth, so the default sound font is used when the
settings file is missing.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/9920#comment:34>
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