[Ardour-Dev] Question

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 07:08:50PM +0200, Robin Gareus wrote:

> The current policy regarding the setup dialog on application start in
> 4.0 is as follows: If jackd is already running and jack was the most
> recently used backend, no dialog is displayed. Ardour silently joins the
> jack session.
> In all other cases the setup dialog is displayed when Ardour4 starts.

So that measn that a dialog will be presented when Jack is already 
running, it was not the last backend used, but the user selects Jack
for the current session. What on earth is the purpose of this ? 

INHO anything depending on 'the last used' whatever is fundamentally
wrong. 

Ciao,

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