[LAU] [LAA] Qtractor 0.1.3 (frugal damsel) released!

[Rui Nuno Capela]

Russell Hanaghan wrote:
> While I'm sure Mark meant in no way to narrow the scope of Qtractor, I 
> looked at it yesterday for the first time semi seriously. It's clearly 
> headed for more than being just a 'loop player'...
> 
> I have a slightly older version {0.1.1} that is among the repo pkg's on 
> my distro of beloved choice. (Sorry Rui...I'm not in my bedroom and I 
> used more than one track!!!  Did I violate the RPL?? {Rui - Pulic - 
> License})
> 

sure you didn't ;)

the "techno-boy bedroom studio" motto has been just qtractor's middle 
name since it was first and officially presented on lac2007 at TU-Berlin--i 
just still keep repeating that tagging ad-nauseum, sorry me :)

besides that anecdotal aspect, you can have it whenever and wherever you 
see fit. imho it's quite generic for prototyping most western pop music 
projects. whatever :)


> Veering off topic as I so fondly do, I'm running Fluxbox 1.0 and when I 
> run Qtractor, obviously it wraps in QT 3.3 in this case. The main 

what? qtractor is a qt4 application. strange that you found it wraps in 
qt3.3. i gues you're referring to the window frame theme or style? is it?


> windows function fine but child windows such as the "mixer" window, come 
> up at a default size and cannot be re-sized other than to be maximized 
> or minimized. I'm 99.9% certain it's a Fluxbox issue (and I have put a 
> LOT of time into this in the last 10 days do to not having a job for he 
> first time in forever), but wonder if anyone has the Fluxbox magic sauce 
> on this....OR, is there QT3.3 magik I can apply.
> 

maybe, who knows, try switching this misterious option off and restart: 
View/Options.../Display/Keep tool windows always on top.


> I'm largly doing this because there is a {yet another} audio based 
> derivitive of my favorite distro out there and before I point the masses 
> to it, I 1st, want blessings of the creator, and 2...it's not ready for 
> prime time! But I CAN tell you, it smells REAL good!!     It runs KDE by 
> default and KDE is getting to be a bit more like that *other* OS that 
> swallows resources n cycles like a pig eating slops, so I'm adding the 
> pazzaz suace to fluxbox with custom menus, purty wallpapers and running 
> Wbar with all the cool apps on it. More on that soon...
> 

fwiw, i do use kde and it *never* gave me a headache as all other 
de/wm's do, redmond and cupertino flavors included:)) but that's me. mho.


cheers
-- 
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc at rncbc.org