CLI/terminal only interface

[rootino]

I very much like this application however i have a slight issue with the hard requirement of needing a GUI.
With gtk it wasn't too big of an issue i could just patch in some presets and be fine however with the switch to qt i find that my gentoo dep tree has grown quite large.
Thing is I don't really need the GUI, i'd much prefer to just have a terminal interface or atleast stubs for the effects which i could than manually direct using a patchbay.

Is there any chance a feature like this could happen in the future? I'd like to be able to compile the application without needing to pull in any crazy gui frameworks.

[wwmm]

Is there any chance a feature like this could happen in the future? I'd like to be able to compile the application without needing to pull in any crazy gui frameworks.

I have thought quite a lot about this in the last years. The "proper approach" for this application would be to have a real service and a separated gui code that communicates with it. But my conclusion is always that I do not have time to implement and maintain things this way.

The main problem with having the window in a separated process is communication. We have too many parameters. Too many level meters. As things are right now the gui code just uses a pointer to the corresponding plugin backend and the job is essentially done. With the plugin backend living with the background service in a different process there is no way the communication with the gui code is going to be that straightforward. It will be a lot more complicated. And that is when lack of time to do all that becomes an issue.