[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #9920: BSynth upgrade
- From: "Pete" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 07:02:14 -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 Pete):
OK, after thinking about it a while, I'm going to state my opinions a bit
more forcibly. It might even classify as a rant. (:-))
I submit that packaging Soundfonts in hpkgs is completely wrong-headed.
They are just (single) files, for gosh sakes, and one of the nice things
about Haiku has been its flexibility. There are lots of superb sf2s
downloadable from the web, and to force them to have to be made into
packages so they can be unpacked into a system folder is just ridiculous.
Again the only possible rationale is for a standard system soundfont
available from the repository. We don't need more than one of these. The
user should just be able to download another from wherever it can be found
(as I have done many times), and be able to make it available to the
synth. (And of course this is just what the settings link allows.)
Before PM there was probably a reasonable use for /boot/system/data/synth,
as the user could at least change the big_synth.sy link. But now it
should have just one use -- to hold the standard default font, and make it
easy for the new user to install. There is no point in packaging others
to go in there too. It's needless work, and restricting.
That's the way I see it, anyway.
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