[LAD] [ANN] QjackCtl 0.3.2 (unstable-qt4) released!

From: Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Dec 21 2007 - 00:00:31 EET

Greetings,

It must be what should be called one late "Fall cleaning": right after
yesterday's Qsynth release, and before going into full-speed season
compromises, I'll just let it all go as is :) That's it, the
world-famous Qt GUI front-end to the incomparable JACK Audio Connection
Kit is here and now, shouting for a general heads-up. Sort of ;)

    QjackCtl 0.3.2 (unstable-qt4) has been released!

It's all in the change-log:

- Patchbay port matching has been slightly extended, this time
  allowing for the multiple or as many-to-many connections between
  socket plugs, provided these are specified in proper regex form
  (after a patch proposed by Dave Moore, thanks).

- A new option to start the program minimized when the system tray
  icon is enabled, is now available from Setup/Misc/Start minimized
  to system tray (as kindly suggested by Marc-Olivier Barre).

- Regression from QSystemTrayIcon (Qt4 >= 4.2) implementation, at
  least on X11 environments: while the main application widget was
  minimized to the system-tray, closing any other top-level widget
  was causing the immediate and unexpected application shutdown.

- Some portaudio backend settings are now being enabled, specially
  suited for the jackdmp flavouring.

- Server mode display blinking, usually shown as the RT indicator,
  is now an option (Setup/Display/Blink server mode indicator when
  started).

- Tool/child windows position and size preservation fixed.

- The connections/patchbay auto-refresh option has been finally
  removed due to several user requests, although deprecated for
  quite some time now it has been the probable cause of some
  periodic xrun occurrences due to graph-locking in jackd (while
  making Geoff Beasley angry in the process:).

- Messages line limit was not being checked, now honored.

- Simple as it could ever be, the build executive summary report
  is now given on configure.

- Patchbay snapshot got its socket and port ordering back.

- ALSA Sequencer support is now an optional feature on setup,
  preventing the annoying "MIDI patchbay will be not available"
  warning message, ruining window placement on Linux systems
  where the snd-midi-seq kernel module is not loaded or not
  favorable (eg. OSS) at startup (by request from Jussi Laako).

- Get configure to try and detect the correct qmake location and
  insert it the search order, so let the qt4 tools take precedence
  when --with-qt option is given and older qt3 ones coexist and
  are found located ahead in the PATH.

- The connections widget is now being properly refreshed, due to
  some quirk in the QTreeWidget which was preventing some items,
  specially the expanded ones, to disappear in the void. Meanwhile,
  with a hand from Stephane Letz, the client/port lookup method was
  changed to prevent duplicated, missing entries or worse, crashes
  due to weird behaved windows applications.

- The xrun count stats can now be reset simply by middle clicking
  on the systray icon or the main window's display area (thanks to
  patch sent by Dominic Sacre).

- An improved version of the "shiny" background image was issued.
  The original somehow looked like two different images put together,
  probably most apparent on a bright TFT screen (by Dominic Sacre).

- A warning is now being issued, asking whether one wants to remove
  a corresponding Patchbay connection, when client/ports are being
  disconnected over the Connections window, thus avoiding automatic
  reconnection annoyance due to normal active Patchbay behavior.

- The infamous "Keep child windows always on top" global option is
  now supposed to behave a little better when disabled, layering
  child windows as naturally as far the window manager dictates.

- Input/Output Channel setting is now allowed to be greater than 32;
  the special default text is now displayed, also on Input/Output
  Latency and Priority settings spin-boxes.

- Andreas Persson just sent a patch that makes it possible to compile
  and run qjackctl with Qt version 4.1. Applied without hesitation,
  thanks.

Hurry, the source tarball, as some other binary forms, might be found in
the usual and official place:

    http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl

Cheers && Enjoy

-- 
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc@email-addr-hidden
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