Hi Orcan,


Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> Hi, I packaged the current svn snapshot #733 for Fedora and hopefully
> it will hit the testing repos soon.
> During packaging I found some issues and I'd like to share them with
> you together with some requests.
>
> * Hydrogen ships with tinyxml which gets compiled statically into
> hydrogen. I don't think this is a good idea. Fedora, Mandriva, SuSe
> and a few other distributions come with tinyxml. I think scons should
> use the internal tinyxml if it is avaiilable. I'm attaching a patch
> (against svn co 733) that I used to make hydrogen use the internal
> tinyxml. It sure needs some more work to use the shipped tinyxml as a
> fallback.
>   
I'm to new in this project to know what the intention was to ship 
hydrogen with
tinyxml. Comix, do you remember why?
> * A "GenericName" to the .desktop file would be beautiful. Something
> in the lines of "Drum Machine" or "Drum Programmer". Also the
> categories X-Drumming  X-MIDI  X-Jack etc. can be added.
>   

> * I am not very familiar with scons. I had to hack the Sconstruct file
> to pass the optflags that I wanted. It would be nice if I could pass
> the optflags to the scons command, e.g.
> scons oss=0 portaudio=1 optflags="-another -brick -in-the -Wall"
> If no optflags are passed, then scons should use the default ones.
>
>   
Ok, i'll fix both points.

> * At the end of the day (after "scons install"), the file
> /usr/bin/hydrogen is installed with 775 permission. Why isn't the
> default executable file permission 755?
>   
That was not intended, i'm gonna check why this happens.
> * I see that the documentation is ready but when I click Info->User
> manual, it still shows me the hydrogen 0.9.3 documentation. Can you
> put the data/new_manual and data/new_tutorial in the appropriate
> places?
>   
The new documentation is not really ready at the moment. It lacks of a
nice stylesheet and some rework. We might focus that in the next time!
> The last request is not related to the anything above at all:
>
> * I was playing my guitar today. You can find quite a lot of Guitar
> Pro files online if you are into guitar tablatures. A significant
> portion of these files come with a drum track.
> Currently the free tablature softwares tuxguitar (java) and kguitar
> (qt3) can import these .gp3 and .gp4 files, together with their drum
> tracks. You can check out their code.
> I thought that it would really be cool to import these drum tracks of
> Guitar Pro files into hydrogen. We would have thousands of files
> available that we can directly edit via hydrogen and it would be a
> double bonus if we could export those edited files. Just an idea...
>
>   
You could file that as a feature request here: 
http://trac.assembla.com/hydrogen/newticket
That's not something i would implement (there are some more relevant 
things to do, like a app-wide shortcut system or lv2 support)
But maybe someone else picks your idea up!
Thanks,
Sebastian

> Orcan
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