Blog Post about Bringing Work Flows to Users in a Meaningful Way
Interesting. Is it possible to provide 'templates' using some sort of session manager for common scenarios, e.g. record from audio input with drums? I've got by so far by running the apps I think I need, but may be missing out on some possibilities. A non-techie musician might struggle moreAug 17, 2012- Having had a look at the workflows wiki it looks like this is what you are trying to do.
I haven't actually used Ubuntu Studio (on Kubuntu), but am looking at installing it in dual-boot. Want to try KX Studio. Do you guys talk to falktx about his work? He's doing some cool stuff with audio that I want to play with. Usual problem of lack of time :(Aug 17, 2012 
hi +Steve Clark!
i think one of the goals is to provide this in a framework with default settings, which should help most non-techies [1]. therefore, by default, you would have at least assistance for a bare number of work flows.
i was also considering that an work flow editor, much like ala carte for editing gnome-menus, would be useful to make it easy for users to moderate existing work flows tailored to their preferred work flow, as well as create new ones and delete (or hide, perhaps?) existing ones.
later i thought that it might be advantageous to have a "manager" - rather than just an editor - which might allow importation of them as well. this would allow people to share their favourite work flows.
another concept we have been tossing around, are "modes", although this is difficult.
but what if you could easily, say from panel icon, switch to a different "mode" (e.g. audio -> video) which would change a variety of desktop settings? these might include menus, panel layouts, number of work spaces, etc. but i fear "modes" would be more than we could do currently with the current team in the short term.
but again, the overall goal is to bring the power of the applications directly to the user by finding a method to make the desktop transparent.Aug 17, 2012- +Steve Clark heh, i forgot the [1].
[1] the ubuntu studio development team has talked previously about our target audience. while we could rely on tech-savy, hacker types for an audience, this does limit growth quite a bit.
our decision, which can always be reassessed, is to target musicians who are not familiar with linux. in essence, these people would be migrating from other operating systems to ubuntu studio.
so the "gap", as people are wont to discuss, to overcome should only be that ubuntu studio is "different, but easy to use" rather than "different, but damn confusing to learn and hard to use" :PAug 17, 2012 - Ease of use is sometimes under-rated in the Linux community. Computers have more or less reached the status of 'appliance' these days. A lot of people use them who don't want to know about command lines and config scripts. I think Linux is pretty simple to use these days generally. It will be great to catch those users as well as the geeks. Go for it!Aug 17, 2012
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