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OvenWerksfluidsynth: does this have standard directories it looks in for soundfonts?06:03
OvenWerksNo. That doesn't make sense. Maybe Qsynth?06:07
OvenWerksNope not that either.06:12
OvenWerksUsers new to Studio who try to use fluidsynth through qsynth or the calf fluidsynth plugin will have a hard time finding the sf2s06:13
OvenWerksWho is going to think to look in /usr/share/sounds/sf2/?06:13
cfhowlettOvenWerks, http://paste.ubuntu.com/14212250/06:15
OvenWerkszequence: I know it is frowned on to put thing into /etc/skel but I think this is one of those places it would make sense. I would like to suggest a link in there called soundfont that points to that directory.06:16
OvenWerkscfhowlett: yes I have those two files.06:16
OvenWerksThey come with Studio, but they are installed in a place that I was able to find... but not a lot of other people06:17
OvenWerksThe two GUIs open the file dialog in the home directory06:17
cfhowlettOvenWerks, sounds like someone goofed06:18
OvenWerkscfhowlett: The man pages for these two things do not give any default directory.06:21
cfhowlettOvenWerks, yep.  contact the maintainer and request a feature?06:22
cfhowlettor at least better documentation?06:22
OvenWerkscfhowlett: It makes sense to look in the home directory because users can DL sound fonts to use.06:22
OvenWerkscfhowlett: It does not make sense for a deb package to install things in the home directory.06:23
OvenWerksSo it is not really the maintainers mistake.06:23
OvenWerksThe two things are not compatable.06:24
OvenWerks(and it would be two maintainers)06:25
sakrecoer_OvenWerks: fluidsynth seems to open the soundfont filemanager at a location where there are 2 soundfonts. it took me a while to understand it was a soundfont player...07:42
sakrecoer_but once i found the "open patch" button, like i wrote, it defaulted the location to where those 2 are stored..07:43
sakrecoer_hm... trying to do that quick tutorial for rapid photo downloader and darktable... 13:27
sakrecoer_but gtk-recordMyDesktop is making super crappy result..13:27
sakrecoer_opening menus make the entire screen glitch, 2 cursors on screen: one is locked the other is active but moving super non-fluid...13:28
flocculantI gave up trying with that 13:28
sakrecoer_i do have a tripod and a camera...13:29
sakrecoer_flocculant: ok, snap it..13:29
flocculantI used kazam13:29
sakrecoer_are there any alternatives?13:29
flocculantthere used to be something really small and simple a cycle or two back - not current though13:30
flocculantyea I used kazam :p13:30
flocculanthttps://launchpad.net/~maarten-baert/+archive/ubuntu/simplescreenrecorder appears to have caught up now :)13:31
sakrecoer_guess that means we should discuss abandoning gtk-record;yDesktop...?13:31
flocculantno idea - not anything to do with me :)13:32
sakrecoer_yeah... its not the first time i have this deception with it...13:32
sakrecoer_tryed it arround 13.04 and it was the same catastrof13:33
flocculant:)13:36
sakrecoer_is kazam KDE?13:39
sakrecoer_kazam was great for video, but i got no sound, althought the settings seem correct...13:44
sakrecoer_for some reason it is muted, but changing the volume kazam crashes...13:47
sakrecoer_too much frustration in one hour :D i give up for now. read you later!13:49
sakrecoer_(not that you have anything to do with my frustration, i just need to step away from the screen a moment)13:50
OvenWerkssakrecoer_: which fluidsynth?15:33
OvenWerkssakrecoer_: Is tha qsynth?15:34
OvenWerkssakrecoer_: qsynth I am not sure... It seems at some time I had to go looking there too, but it saves the last used directory so I am not sure if I found it before or it has been changed to default there.15:37
OvenWerkssakrecoer_: the calf fluidsynth plugin does not save that info at all.15:39
OvenWerkssakrecoer_: it defaults to the home directory.15:40
OvenWerkssakrecoer_: scratch that, it defaults to the PWD. For Ardour that is home (actually the directory started from), but for qtracktor that is the project directory.15:51
sakrecoer_OvenWerks: sorry, yes, the qSynth16:01
sakrecoer_havn't tested the calf fluidsynth tbh16:01
sakrecoer_qSynth defaults to the right directory16:02
sakrecoer_the others i don't know yet...16:02
OvenWerkssakrecoer_: The reason I mention the plugin, is because that is becoming the major use for a lot of people.16:02
sakrecoer_calf rocks!16:02
sakrecoer_well... i love the ones i have used16:02
OvenWerksBut it looks like different plugin hosts will default to different places.16:02
sakrecoer_monosynth, multiband compressor, reverb...16:03
sakrecoer_OvenWerks: can we influense those default?16:03
OvenWerksNot really.16:03
OvenWerksThose defaults make sense in each case.16:03
OvenWerkssakrecoer_: a developer for a plugin host should not have to figure out what PWD to start each plugin at.16:05
sakrecoer_OvenWerks: makes sense. but can we ship our own default somehow?16:09

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