Gigolo as it is in US 12.04 is basically useless. it adds nothing to what Thulnar can already do. US desktop seed has:
* (gvfs-fuse) # let non-GNOME apps see GVFS via fuse * launchpad-integration # Needed to show the launchpad menu items Xubuntu desktop has: * (gvfs-fuse) # let non-GNOME apps see GVFS via fuse * (gvfs-backends) # otherwise no network tab Funny thing... when I install gvfs-backends, Gigolo works all the way. Thulnar can now access sftp://othersystem/ making file transfers for back up really easy (just drag and drop) I would think this would be a normal part of any multimedia set up where a file may represent rather a large number of hours to complete. Please put gvfs-backends back in to desktop. While we are at it... * (leafpad) gives at least some text editing/viewing. * (orage) gives a much nicer clock applet that includes a pop up calender for instant "so that would be next thursday then?" kinds of things. The current clock applet could be removed. Word proc and spread sheet have been removed on purpose so I won't even go there or any other bigger apps. and games. Parole is useless as installed, it complains it does not have the plugins even for a simple mp4/mp3 avi file. I thought it might be that we had not included * libasound2-plugins but when I ran synaptic to install it that package was already installed so that is not it. However, if I install xine-ui instead it seems to work fine with the libs we have already installed. Maybe it should replace parole. Shotwell works much nicer than what xubuntu has for viewing a directory full of photos. foo yc20 and AT1 are perhaps in the wrong menu space instead of main->multimedia they should be in main->multimedia->Audio production I would think. Another thing is that there are a number of mixers/controlers for various sound cards. they are confusing even when you know they are there. It would be nice if there was a menu folder called "sound card specific" or something like that. It would make the audio production menu easier to use. Fooyc20 does not work with the virtual midi keyboard because the keyboard is ALSA and the Fooyc20 expects to get midi from jack. There is a jack based virtual keyboard (jack-keyboard) that could be included. This is one of those areas where there will be trouble for at least a bit. Ardour2 uses alsa for midi as do most midi things... but newer apps are starting to go to jack based midi. Ardour3 and Fooyc20 are two of them. A jack/asla bridge besides the "seq" setting in qjackctl would be nice... something that migrates the device name with it to jack. Anyway, enough comments for today. (maybe) -- Len Ovens www.OvenWerks.net -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
