hello list, i haven't seen much discussion about the GUI of Snd around here ..
personaly i quite like some acpects of motif but some of it is really lagging ;( i have tried the gtk version, that looks quite pretty (despite i was always concerned about the memory usage, and opted motif assuming it takes less memory cause it's old). ot be honest at first snd-gtk did look kindda redicuous to me at first but now i see why it is like that i do really appreciate this way; alternative to the typical gnome/gtk apps design, e.g. the file open dialogue doesn't have the normal icons ..i acually see now that it's really better without those ;) to me those files look more like tapes on shelves that way ;\) brilliant! the only thing i did get dissapointed about ..well, after using motif gui for a while that there is no way of resizing the channel pannes .. it's proly realy fine with a big monitor and just one or two channels, but i do work with four and six channel files quite regulary and my monitor is just 15 inch .. in fact what made me go for gtk gui was this error: :(dlopen "/opt/audio/lib64/xm.so") "/opt/audio/lib64/xm.so: undefined symbol: _XmStrings22" i had upgraded openmotif and snd as well and that error came up, but just now i found that there is an extra package in gentoo portage "x11-libs/openmotif-compat Legacy Open Motif libraries for old binaries" so i had just installed that and the _XmStrings22 probem vanished :)) it's a shame that gtk does take up too much memory, i have tested it with the same file and with gtk interface it had a lot more [under|over]run's detected .. gtk does look a lot brighter but memory is a massive issue. are most of the people using gtk or motif Snd? happy editing! -- cheers, ilya .ะด _______________________________________________ Cmdist mailing list [email protected] http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/cmdist
