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[Len Ovens]

On Mon, February 20, 2012 10:01 pm, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 21:29 -0800, Len Ovens wrote:
>> the App name does not give a good idea what the app is.
>
> Is impossible to enable tooltip comments for the Xfce menu?

The ubuntustudio theme enables tool tips. So yes they are there.

>> Most have the same icon etc. What I found annoying is that there is a
>> mixer classification for *.desktop file use
>
> There's an Icon hdspmixer.png installed, but for the menu alsa-tools.xpm
> is used for Oneiric, after installing alsa-tools-gui from the next
> release.

I will look, I don't know if I can fix that properly... it should be as a
alsa-tools-gui bug fix in my opinion. It is not the icon file but the
*.desktop file that comes with the mixer. In any case the point still
remains that there are a number of mixers and most people will only ever
use one. In fact some people will only ever use the alsa mixer and don't
ever need to see the rest. Some people will set and forget it and do their
level setting in ardour too. The card specific mixers often have useful
extras like mudita24 provides peek monitoring and monitor mixing and
levels indication as well as the card setup in an easy to use manner. I
expect some of the other multi-track card mixers do too.

>
>> I guess I am still dreaming of GCDMaster.
>
> Doesn't Mate provide the needed GTK2 libs?

It is the gnome libs that are outdated. GCDMaster has not been updated for
5 plus years. It has been cut from the ubuntu repos. cdrdao now ships
without it.



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Len Ovens
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