[LAU] qjackctl bubble

[Philipp]

Excerpts from Peter Plessas's message of 2010-04-05 13:41:09 +0200:
> Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
> > On 04/05/2010 01:16 AM, Peter Plessas wrote:
> >> Philipp wrote:
> >>> Excerpts from Peter Plessas's message of 2010-04-05 01:40:04 +0200:
> >>>> david wrote:
> >>>>> Peter Plessas wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> as i start qjackctl and it can not start the server because some other 
> >>>>>> application is using the soundcard it continues to flash Winows-style 
> >>>>>> bubbles with its error message over and over every N seconds. Very 
> >>>>>> annoying behavior. Is there any way to stop it? Make it forget about 
> >>>>>> bubbles and misunderstood user-friendliness?
> >>>>> Interesting, I've never had QJackCtl dor more than one error message. 
> >>>>> Never had it continue asking. I don't even see a setting anywhere that 
> >>>>> seems to have that at all. I have 0.3.2.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> What version are you using?
> >>>> Qt: 4.5.3
> >>>> QjackCtl: 0.3.6
> >>>>
> >>>> Do you have qjackctl configured to fire up the jack server at 
> >>>> application startup?
> >>>>
> >>>> thank you!
> >>>> P
> >>> The bubbles are my fault, I suggested them, but I also noticed that
> >>> behavior and I think I complained about it on the sf bugtracker but I
> >>> can't find the bug anymore...
> >> Thank you Philipp, for your kind reply and for your work in supporting 
> >> qjackctl! Do you think we should file a new bugreport?
> >>
> >>> The main reason for bubbles was that the tray icon was unusable while
> >>> the error window was showing, which was inconvenient for me.
> >> I already think that having the message window plus an error message 
> >> dialogue popping up in older versions of qjackctl was too much of 
> >> different windows opening all over the place, so while I totally 
> >> understand your motivation I think this is too much information in a 
> >> badly organized way. I even have the disadvantage of being on a debian 
> >> system which will incorporate an eventual bugfix very late after it got 
> >> submitted, unless I start to compile qjackctl myself which I usually 
> >> want to avoid.
> >>> AFAIK only the very latest release of qjackctl has bubbles instead of
> >>> the window.
> >> How long do you think reverting to a non-bubbley behavior is going to take?
> >>
> > 
> > the bubbles appear on qjackctl >= 0.3.6 only if you enable the system
> > tray icon.
> > 
> > the bubbles, or otherwise plain message boxes, will keep popping up
> > until jack is either started successfully or you stop retrials by
> > pressing the stop button explicitly.
> Not if the jack server is "started at application startup". Then the 
> bubbles are around all the next hours. And the message window pops up 
> too which is known from previous versions of qjackctl and I think 
> intended behavior. So it is hard to even get to the qjackctl main window 
> with bubbles and message windows popping up every N seconds. Somehow 
> this behavior is not user-friendly at all any more.
> 
> Let's think of a better way of doing it, perhaps no bubbles at all?
> 
> kind
> P

So what exactly are you suggesting? I don't think the blocking pop-up
in the pre-bubble versions was better. Maybe remove the failure notification
altogether, just pop open the messages window?
Basically you can see that the server isn't running from the tray icon.

Or change the restart behavior? Try only once?