[Kde-announce-apps] QjackCtl 0.2.20

[Rui Capela]

Name: QjackCtl
Version: 0.2.20
Type: Sound Application
Depend: Qt 3.x
License: GPL
Homepage: http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=14130

Description:
 Qjackctl is a simple Qt application to control
the JACK sound server daemon, specific for the
Linux Audio Desktop infrastructure.

Written in C++ around the Qt3 toolkit for X11,
most exclusively using Qt Designer.

Provides a simple GUI dialog for setting several
JACK daemon parameters, which are properly saved
between sessions, and a way control of the status
of the audio server daemon. With time, this
primordial interface has become richer by
including a enhanced patchbay and connection
control features.

Changelog:
 0.2.20   2006-03-05  Featuring patchbay socket
forwarding.

- Server path setting now accepts custom command
line parameters (after a kind suggestion from
Jussi Laako).

- The internal XRUN callback notification
statistics and reporting has been changed to be a
bit less intrusive.

- Patchbay socket dialog gets some more eye-candy
as icons have been added to the client and plug
selection (combobox) widgets.

- Connections and patchbay lines coloring has
changed just slightly :)

- New patchbay socket forwarding feature. Any
patchbay socket can now be set to have all its
connections replicated (i.e. forwarded) to another
one, which will behave actively as a clone of the
former. Forward connections are shown by vertical
directed colored lines, and can be selected either
on socket dialog or from context menu (currently
experimental, only applicable to input/writable
sockets).

- Optional specification of alternate JACK and/or
ALSA installation paths on configure time (after a
patch from Lucas Brasilino, thanks).


0.2.19a  2005-11-28  MIDI aliases are back in
town.

- ALSA sequencer client/port name aliases are
functional again; all actual MIDI sequencer
client/port numerical identifier prefixes are also
back in business.


0.2.19   2005-11-19  MRU patchbay selection, Mac
OS X and other fixes.

- Connections widget views are now properly
refreshed after renaming client/ports (aliases).

- Disabled system tray and ALSA sequencer support
on configure time, whenever building for MacOSX as
default.

- Fixed the major issues with selecting an audio
interface on Mac OSX; the button the right of the
interface combo is now much better looking than it
was before; input/output channel counts are also
updated automatically now (thanks to Jesse
Chappell for the patch).

- Prevent the setting of the coreaudio device id
on the jackd command line (-n) whenever the
default interface is being selected.

- The connections and patchbay windows are now
allowed to have a wider connection lines frame
panel; splitter width sizes are now persistent
across application sessions (thanks to Filipe
Tomás for the hint).

- Activation toggling feedback on the patchbay
widget has been fixed; additionally and as found
convenient, the most recently used patchbay
definitions can now be loaded immediately by
selecting from a drop-down list widget, which
replaces the old static patchbay name status text,
and adds a lil'icon too :)

- All widget captions changed to include proper
application title prefix.

- Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates
to date; sample SPEC file for RPM build is now
being included and generated at configure time.

- The current selected device is now shown with a
checkmark on the device selection menu(s), while
on the settings dialog.

- Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead
of registering the traditional lastWindowClosed()
signal to quit() slot, just to let the -geometry
command line argument have some effect on X11.


0.2.18   2005-07-18  The mantra of bugfixes stays
on.

- A freezing and endless loop condition on the
patchbay socket item duplication (copy) has been
fixed.

- Fixed output disability when messages limit
option is turned off   (thanks again to Wolfgang
Woehl for spotting this one).