Hi Eugenia,
You're welcome, but I'm not the only person involved with Ubuntu Studio.
You, with these emails, can also be involved, and as such I highly
recommend joining the Ubuntu Studio Developers mailing list at
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel so that
you can participate and send these requests there rather than emailing
me personally.
>Friction
Looks good, and that's quite possible. I'm not sure if anyone on the
Debian Multimedia team has any eyes on it as we typically follow them
for the packaging, but hopefully they do. Typically we don't include RCs
of software in the repos unless that software has already been released
previously and the RC fixes some major bugs with regards to building.
>Scribus
We used to include Scribus by default, but dropped it to save space on
our .iso images since Ubuntu Studio is, by far, the largest Ubuntu
flavor. It is still supported and can be installed as part of our
`ubuntustudio-publishing` metapackage.
>Freecad
CAD is borderline and worthy of discussion of whether or not it is
within the scope of Ubuntu Studio and, therefore, which category it
belongs in (graphics or publishing). Remember, whenever we add a package
it increases our .iso image size, and we need to keep that down as much
as possible, so we must be very critical. As it is now, Freecad is
available in the repositories among other CAD applications, so we must
be thoughtful about which CAD applications we include, if we choose to
include one. This should be a discussion on the mailing list, so I
*highly* encourage you to join.
>LMMS
LMMS is an application we already include by default, and is synced from
Debian, so where Debian goes we go.
>More plugins, zsynth, dexed
Adding more plugins and what-not would be something I'd like to do now
that the dust is settling from multiple transitions over the course of
the past two cycles (time_t64, plasma 6), so there's a lot to be
discussed. Joining the email list or discussing it in Matrix is a good
idea. https://matrix.to/#/#ubuntustudio:ubuntu.com
Anyhow, thanks for the email, and I look forward to seeing you on the
email list and on Matrix.
Erich
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On 10/13/24 22:59, Eugenia Loli wrote:
Hello Erich,
thank you for the new version of Studio!
I have some news about video compositing, as we discussed in the past.
Apparently, there's a brand new app that should be packaged. It's
about to hit RC1 very soon: https://friction.graphics/
It's an After Effects clone and actively developed. The guy who makes
it doesn't like Flatpaks/snaps, so the app is not well known yet. But
it definitely is going to replace Natron for most people on Linux.
Additionally, another idea would be to install Scribus by default, as
it is part of the creative process for many people.
Another would be Freecad and/or QCad (the GPL version). Especially now
that Freecad is going to hit v1.0. It is possible to create art with
them, as a lot of architects also learn to draw at school.
Finally, please consider adding LMMS when the new version is going to
get released. They're very actively working on git to add VST3 and
recording, making it more full featured. Adding more plugins and audio
apps like zsynth, dexed etc would be great too, so new users get more
tools at hand after installation.
thanks,
Eugenia
On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 4:59 AM Erich Eickmeyer
<er...@ericheickmeyer.com> wrote:
Hi Eugenia, and hello from Seattle!
We already do include kdenlive and Krita by default. The one that we're missing
is Natron, as it's in neither the Ubuntu nor the Debian repositories for
reasons that are unknown to me at the moment other than it has never been
packaged. As a packager myself, it can be a very tedious task. It has been in
the back of my mind for quite some time. With Ubuntu Studio being a volunteer
project, time is sometimes something we don't have enough of.
As DaVinci Resolve, Houdini, and Reaper are closed-source applications that go
against licensing terms, we cannot support them in any way. Even
pre-configuring them would show support, and that would be crossing a line into
territory that we simply do not have capacity for. Additionally, since they are
closed source, dependencies can change without notice, which makes them moving
targets, so we simply cannot support such moving targets.
That said, thank you for the suggestions. Unfortunately, we are bound by the
limitations imposed by the Ubuntu Technical Board as part of being an official
flavor of Ubuntu, so some of these suggestions simply aren't possible, while
others are.
Thanks,
Erich
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Technical Lead - Edubuntu
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 5:40 PM Eugenia <donotre...@wordpress.com> wrote:
Name:
Eugenia
Email:
eugeni...@gmail.com
Website:
http://www.eugenialoli.com
Message:
Erich,
hello from Spokane!
I just donated a bit that I could for ubuntu studio. I have a bit of feedback,
if I may. I think it'd be great to include kdenlive, Natron, and Krita on the
distro by default. Sure, these are kde/qt apps, but they belong in the distro
that hails as the best multimedia distro. We like it or not, kdenlive is the
superior video editor on Linux (apart from Davinci Resolve), Natron is the
superior compositor in terms of usability (Blender's is too problematic for
casual compositing), and there is nothing else as powerful as Krita!
I'm sure these can be downloaded from the repos, but it's important to include
these by default. It would really enrich the out of the box experience for
media users.
Another interesting idea would be to have the distro ready, with full
dependencies and changes pre-configured to run closed source media apps, like
Resolve, Houdini, Reaper, and a couple other pro audio apps that are available
for Linux. Just so the users who might want to use these closed source apps, to
not have headaches after manually installing them. These apps have demos, so
you could install their demos to test them (no need to buy them).
take care!
Eugenia
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