[ardour-dev] 2.0 beta 7 released

[Sampo Savolainen]

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 21:58 +0100, Olivier Doaré wrote:
>   
> Thank you Paul. I'm doing a "svn up" on my main machine instead. In fact 
> I was trying the compilation on another computer with minimal 
> development library, so i choosed beta7.1.
> 
> Let me take this opportunity to report some problems i have seen:
> 
> * In beta7.1, among other things, the ardev script is absent. Is it 
> intentional? I think it can be useful for people who want to run ardour 
> from the installation directory, even if not building from svn.

The ardev script is not usually in release tarballs.

> * In beta7.1 as well as in latest svn, when run from gnome, the GUI is 
> nice and standard. But when run from another WM, say fluxbox, the 
> non-empty lists look like this:
> http://nolv.free.fr/ardour/ardour_blank.png
> http://nolv.free.fr/ardour/ardour_blank2.png
> Every other parts of the GUI are OK. Note that i have no ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file.

This is a strange anomaly we see with some themes. No real solution yet
except to change your theme engine to clearlooks.

> * When embedding a soundfile, it seems that ardour doesn't correctly 
> create a peakfile, i get this message over and over when playing or 
> moving the mouse over the region:
>     [ERROR]: AudioSource: cannot open peakpath 
> "/home/ol/tape/test2/peaks/f1.peak" (Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce 
> type) (No file or directory of this type)
> And, of course the waveform is not displayed in the region.

I haven't seen this before. Noted.

Thanks for the report.

  Sampo