A week In Jokosher (with Foresight)
The totals from my little competition last week are that we deleted 60 spam posts from 18 user accounts which goes to show that if you cant, or dont have the time to contribute, code or documentation then you can still help us (or any other open source project) by simply reading the forums, and the news comments, and reporting any spam or other abuse you find. Find us on #jokosher on irc.freenode.net.
If you have some more time, testing is always appreciated. This weeks highlights for you to look at are:
- Changes to the zoom so that you can always zoom out far enough to see the entire project in one go
- An “Add Audio File” button was added to the main toolbar which creates a new “Audio File” instrument and prompts you for a file to import. This should make it a little more obvious how to get started on a new project at the expense of a slightly more cluttered interface. If you have an opinion on this, post to the mailing list or add a comment below.
- Events can now be controlled entirely with the keyboard, this is a big step forward both in terms of accessability and lets you position events very precisely. Left and right cursors move events, the Ctrl key speeds up the movement by a factor of 10.
- 35 other changes, bug fixes, and polishing of the effects system.
By now you’ve probably already seen/heard Jonos podcast recorded entirely in Jokosher (http://www.jonobacon.org/stateofjokosher-1.ogg) which bought a a few issues to light, but more importantly shows that Jokosher is pretty much there for production use. There is still some work to do before they can record a full episode of Lugradio using Jokosher but that goal is getting closer to realisation with every commit.
And finally Thilo Pfennig has been busy packaging Jokosher for Foresight Linux (http://www.foresightlinux.com), not a distro I know much about I confess but if they package Jokosher it must be good 
January 28th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
To be honest I was more involved in organizing or initiating the packaging as doing the real work. This is because I am also rather new to Foresight. But it’s nice to see the Foresight community taking up good suggestions and where together to get exciting applications packaged in Foresight. Generally Foresight Linux wants to present the most valuable GNOME applications, so Jokosher is definitely worth our attention.
I try to keep the install HOWTo uptodate here:
http://wiki.foresightlinux.com/confluence/display/DEV/Jokosher