[LAU] Snd learning curve

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On 02/14/2011 12:38 PM, Hartmut Noack wrote:
> Am 10.02.2011 21:00, schrieb Bill Schottstaedt:
>> Thanks for the kind words about Snd! If any of you have the
>> time and inclination, I'd like to hear how Snd should be changed
>> to make it easier to use. My main interest is in the sound
>> processing, not the user interface (which I guess is painfully obvious),
>
> But testing snd-gtk in Fedora14 (the version from CCRMA) the only
> trouble I see *is* related to the UI. Especially things like this:
>
> snd-error: gtk-popup.scm needs the xg module (either 'make xg' or build
> Snd with --with-static-xg): /home/zettberlin/xg.so: Kann die
> Shared-Object-Datei nicht öffnen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
> "gtk-popup.scm"[14]: (if (string? hxm) (snd-error (format #f
> "gtk-popup.scm needs the xg module (either 'make xg' or build Snd with
> --with-static-xg): ~A" hxm)) (dlinit hxm "Init_libxg"))
>
>
> I would consider it a major improvement, if such dialogues would not pop
> up in a general distribution of Snd. If a program offers me the
> opportunity to switch a feature on and if I do it informs me of a
> missing module, then I consider this a bug in the way the program is
> distributed.

That would be my fault as a packager, not Bill's. I regretfully don't 
have the cycles to do more thorough testing...

Could you send me off-list what I need to do to reproduce the issue? 
(and any others you have stumbled on). I'll try to fix it asap...

-- Fernando