Re: [LAU] Snd learning curve

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