[jokosher-devel] [PATCH] Instrument view tweaks

[Denis Washington <dwashington gmx net>]

Hi,

First of all, your project rocks! After I have played around with Apple 
Garageband for a while at a friend's, I decided to try Jokosher as I 
already heard from it, and I must say you've done a great work so far! :)

I wanted to give something back to you, and so I wrote a small patch 
[1]. It's fairly trivial, but pretty user-visible: it should tweak the 
instrument view and controls to look a bit nicer and be a slight bit 
more usable. I hope I can help you with further code contributions; 
unfortunately I have no knowledge of gstreamer whatsoever, but I know 
Python pretty well and have also already done some Gtk+ development, so 
I would be glad to help Jokosher in UI respects.

I also already have a UI-related question regarding Jokosher: why did 
you choose to have a separate mixing view? This concept seems a bit 
problematic too me. One problem, for instance, is volume levels: whereas 
you set per-instrument volume levels in mixing view, you can't configure 
timeline-based volume level changes inside an instrument, this must be 
done in the editing view. Why not have simple sliders for balance and 
volume in the instrument view, maybe in an expander to save space?

Anyway, I like your project and hope I can make to make it rock even 
more! :)

Yours,
Denis Washington

[1] The patch; https://bugs.launchpad.net/jokosher/+bug/132210