31 Jul
2010
31 Jul
'10
8:21 a.m.
On 31 July 2010 02:19, Niels Mayer <nielsmayer(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Oh.. I had noticed a slight shaking but didn't think to mention it,
thinking it was just a cosmetic fault.
...
Yes, the CPU
usage is from envy24control. Somehow, strange as it
sounds... The higher the volume, the higher the CPU usage... Or, if
the audio output is continually loud, it seems to overload the meters
and CPU usages rockets.
I've reproduced and fixed this problem. It had to do with a strange
"Gtk-oscillation" in UI sizing that would happen whenever label
"0dBFS" would get drawn into the digital mixer meter pair (which would
of course occur with louder signals :-) ). Lesser (or at least more
computationally tractable) oscillations within the pane of
sliders&meters might also happen, but the "earthquake" caused by the
digital mixer panel on the LHS resizing had an interesting "feedback
loop" that would take quite a while to "settle out" event-wise. Also, after seeing your snapshots with the
"dark" background graphics,
I decided to let a gnome style pick a pair of contrasting colors for
me. so now I'm using the following foreeground/background pair:
widget->style->text_aa[GTK_STATE_ACTIVE]
widget->style->text_aa[GTK_STATE_PRELIGHT]
(the L/R meter pair for the digital mixer pair are the same color as
all the other meters)
Comments on this approach? The color choice is truly milquetoast now!
But also visible, soothing & functional:
Comments? On first impressions, I like the screen shot because it's
not the old colours. Though first impressions based upon something not
being what it used to be count for nothing in the long run...
I'd like to see a 'original color theme' checkbox so we can
temporarily be disgusted by the bright-green and cadmium yellow just
to make the milquetoast effect soothing once more ;-)
james.
