Rui -- Once again thanks for all your recent updates. I tried out two "competitors" recent releases and a beta with midi enhancements. Yours wins by far with the quickest first-launch to sound output, such as when I was testing it out with zynaddsubfx and fluidsynth dssi plugins on a new meego netbook install. In the competitors, stunning and full-featured as they are, I felt a sense of accomplishment after navigating through umpteen layers of byzantine menus and dialogs just to get the DAW midi inputs to light up when i played a keyboard. And then I was all "screw this... back to qtractor...." There was no obvious way to launch any of the myriad LV2 or DSSI plugins I've installed and get sound output for a midi track -- not like the old "click and go" in qtractor.
However, with popularity comes stupid questions, so here goes: (1) Any hints on customizing qtractor qt/X/etc for use on a smaller screen (1024x600 10.1" display) : see http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2010-September/073032.html or excerpt below. (2) I 've got subversion installs of all your progs, so I usually make the day of your announcement a good day to try a new svn up & compile. (btw, r1687 builds and runs beautifully). Recently in compiling one of your progs (qmidinet) I found out the hard way that I needed to do "make clean ; autoreconf -i -f ; ./configure ; make" in order to see the updated "about" page in the resources, even after previously updating, cleaning and recompiling from subversion. Is there a better way of doing this, or is there some automatic (make) way that a subversion revision update could automatically trigger updating the configuration if needed. Of course, it might all be there already, as I really haven't been using Qt for very long.... re question #1: http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2010-September/073032.html ////////// PS: I guess it wouldn't be too early to ask -- preexisting Qt4 "desktop" apps like http://qtractor.sourceforge.net/ http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net/ http://qsynth.sourceforge.net/ end up taking some time getting used to, due to the limited screen real estate on a netbook as well as "popup" application-level windows send you to a different screen and make it difficult to use in conjunction with other application windows simultaneously. Thus three questions related to using existing Qt4 desktop apps on Meego: (1) A way for meego to popup new non-modal application level windows, such as "Mixer" and "Connection" in qtractor -- in the same "screen" as the one that launched it. Alternately is there a way for these windows in qtractor/qsynth/qjackctl to become panels in the existing windows? (2) A way for existing application icons in qtractor to be displayed smaller, with less border/whitespace, so that they can fit more densely in a panel. Is there an appropriate way to set different kinds of application defaults /styles/skins for using such Qt4 applications on a lower resolution screen -- such as referencing display DPI? (3) A way for Qt4 application icon panels such as used in qtractor, to be rendered as dynamic "mouseover" popups, or "window-shade" style overlays, providing the functionality of the application icons, without taking up static real estate on a cramped screen? //////////// -- Niels http://nielsmayer.com _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev