What's new in QjackCtl 0.4.1
Feb 10, 2016
- Probing portaudio audio device in a separate thread (by Kjetil Matheussen, thanks).
- Messages standard output capture has been improved again, now in both ways a non-blocking pipe may get.
- Regression fix for invalid system-tray icon dimensions reported by some desktop environment frameworks.
- New hi-res application icon (by Uttrup Renzel, Max Christian Pohle, thanks).
- System tray icon red background now blinks when a XRUN occurs.
- Desktop environment session shutdown/logout management has been also adapted to Qt5 framework.
- Single/unique application instance control adapted to Qt5/X11.
- Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script.
- Overrideable tooltips with latency info (re. Connections JACK client/ports: patch by Xavier Mendez, thanks).
- Complete rewrite of Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.
- French (fr) translation update (by Olivier Humbert, thanks).
New in QjackCtl 0.4.0 (Feb 10, 2016)
- Some windows fixes added (patch by Kjetil Matheussen, thanks).
- Most advanced Setup/Settings are moved into new Setup/Advanced settings tab; limit range for the real-time priority setting, now having 6 as absolute minimum valid value (after patches by Robin Gareus, thanks).
- A new top-level widget window geometry state save and restore sub-routine is now in effect (EXPERIMENTAL).
- Delayed geometry setup for widget windows upon startup has been deprecated and scrapped altogether.
- Setup/settings dialog tab is going into some layout changes; also got rid of old patchbay auto-refresh timer cruft, which was previously hidden/disabled.
- New socket names are now automatically inferred from selected client names while on the Patchbay widget, Socket dialog.
- Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.
- German (de) translation update (by Guido Scholz, thanks).
New in QjackCtl 0.3.13 (Mar 26, 2015)
- Added application description as freedesktop.org's AppData.
- Setup dialog form is now modeless.
- Introducing brand new active patchbay reset/disconnect-all user preference option.
- Current highlighted client/port connections are now drawn with thicker connector lines.
- New user preference option on whether to show the nagging 'program will keep running in the system tray' message, on main window close.
- Connections lines now drawn with anti-aliasing; connections splitter handles width is now reduced.
- Drop missing or non-existent patchbay definition files from the most recent used list.
New in QjackCtl 0.3.12 (Oct 22, 2014)
- JACK client/port pretty-name (metadata) support is being introduced and seamlessly integrated with old Connections client/port aliases editing
- Application close confirm warning is now raising the main window as visible and active for due top level display, especially applicable when minimized to the system tray.
- Messages standard output capture has been slightly improved as for non-blocking i/o, whenever available.
- Translations install directory change.
- Allow the build system to include an user specified LDFLAGS.
- Missing input/output-latency parameter settings now settled for the D-BUS controlled JACK server and firewire back-end driver.
New in QjackCtl 0.3.9 (Nov 12, 2012)
- Killing D-BUS controlled JACK server is now made optional, cf. Setup/Misc/Stop JACK audio server on application exit. (a patch by Roland Mas, thanks).
- Added include to shut up gcc 4.7 build failures.
- Make(ing) -jN parallel builds now available for the masses.
- A mis-quoting bug at the command line argument string may have been crippling the (unmaintained) Windows port since ever, leaving its main function to start jackd dead in the water, belly down :) now hopefully fixed (following a mail transaction with Stephane Letz and Mathias Nagorni, thanks).
- Currently a JACK2-only feature, the JACK version string display at the About dialog box, must now be explicitly enabled on configure time (--enable-jack-version).
- A new so called "Server Suffix" parameter option appears to rescue on the situations where QjackCtl falls short on extra, exquisite and/or esoteric command line options eg.
- Fixed D-Bus Input/Output device parameter settings, filled when either interface is selected for Capture/Playback only.
- Fixed Makefile.in handling of installation directories to the configure script eg. --datadir, --localedir, --mandir.
- Main window is now brought to front and (re)activated when clicking on the system tray icon instead of just hiding it.
- Add current xrun count to the system tray icon tooltip, if not zero
New in QjackCtl 0.3.7 (Dec 1, 2010)
- Session widget has session save type preserved as well.
- Connections and the new Messages/Status widgets now have
- their last open tab preserved across program run-cycles.
- Connections and Patchbay widgets have been finally given
- up on an old feature request: an Expand All items button.
- A significant UI layout has been made: the Messages and
- Status widgets were merged into one, giving space to the
- brand new Session wigdet to be easy accessible from the
- main panel control window.
- libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link
- phase, as seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros
- eg. Fedora 13, Debian 6. (closing bug #3050915).
- Input/Output latency options were missing but now finally
- enabled for the firewire back-end.
- General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.
- Avoid pre-loading a stalled patchbay definition filename
- and its nagging error on startup (fixes bug #3017078).
- Client connection retrial logic scrapped. Being a leftover
- from early ages, when machines were slower and JACK server
- startup times were longer... now, if it can't connect first
- time as client, it will tear down the server whether it's
- starting up still or not at all. (cf. Setup/Settings/Start
- Delay for the rescue).
- Server name is finally part of the server settings presets,
- thanks to Fons Adriaensen for the heads-up.
- As a workaround regarding issues switching jack2's backends,
- Robin Gareus sends us yet another D-Bus metho slot: "preset",
- (dbus-send --system / org.rncbc.qjackctl.preset string:PRESET).
- Thanks again.
- Another D-Bus interface slot makes it through implementation:
- "quit" (eg. usage: dbus-send --system / org.rncbc.qjackctl.quit).
- Besides, there's also these new JACK session management actions
- which were being overlooked as well: "load", "save", "savequit"
- and "savetemplate" are also available as D-Bus method slots.
- Make sure that Patchbay socket names are unique when adding
- or copying, fixing previous patch by Dominic Sacre.
- JACK version is now being shown on the About box (jack2).
- Slight Connections widget behavioral change: (dis)connecting a
- client (from) to one single port, (dis)connections will be
- applied in sequence from (to) all client output ports to (from)
- as many input ports there are in below, one by one (satisfying
- a 5 year old request from Yann Orlarey, thanks:).
- JACK session support is being introduced.
- Ignore first XRUN occurrence option dropped from statistics.
- Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has
- been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to
- wrong main widget hidden state.
- Double-quotes are now being added to device names which include
- blank characters and were rendering invalid all command line
- invocation of the classic JACK server (eg. specially due for
- Portaudio device names on Windows).
- Transport play (rolling) status is now being guarded to avoid
- backfiring from extraneous transport state changes.
- General source tree layout and build configuration change.
- Italian (it) translation added (by Sergio Atzori).
- Post-shutdown script invocation logic slightly refactored in
- attempt to enforce its execution on application quit.
New in QjackCtl 0.3.6 (Mar 10, 2010)
- Make sure socket names are unique on each side of the Patchbay
- (another patch from Dominic Sacre, thanks).
- A bunch of primitive D-Bus interface slots have been added,
- allowing shortcut access to most of main applications actions
- like toggling Messages, Status, Connections, Patchbay widget
- pop-ups, reset stats, transport and so on. New bindings are
- given eg. via dbus-send --system / org.rncbc.qjackctl.(main,
- messages, status, connections, patchbay, setup, about, reset,
- rewind, backward, play, pause, forward). (from an original
- idea from Sebastian Gutsfeld, thanks).
- Patchbay snapshot now tolerates JACK client port strings that
- have more than one semi-colon in it, honoring just the first
- one exactly as everywhere else eg. Connections. (a glitch as
- reported by Geoff Beasley while using a2jmidid).
- Most modal message dialog boxes (eg. critical errors) are now
- replaced by system tray icon bubble messages where available
- (mitigating feature request #2936455).
- Comply with jackd >= 0.118.0 which now runs in real-time mode by
- default; use of -R is now deprecated from the jackd command line
- interface options; use -r to run in non-real-time-scheduling.
- A man page has beed added.
- Got rid of a pretty old and never really useful "jackd-realtime"
- server path option--actually, it was only seen available on the
- now defunct old Mandrake Linux distro.
- D-Bus support, as provided by org.jackaudio.service aka jackdbus,
- is now being introduced and used wherever available and whenever
- enabled. Configuring, starting, stopping and logging the JACK
- back-end server through the "infamous" jackdbus service is now
- being seamlessly exploited.
- Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to
- disk when Setup dialog changes are accepted and applied.
- Server name command line option added (-n, --server-name).
- Single application instance restriction option added (X11).
- Setup for the netjack (slave) "net" driver has now sample-rate
- and frames per buffer (period size) settings disabled and/or
- ignored, as those are pretty much auto-detected by default;
- also, a new "netone" backend driver option has been introduced
- (as suggested by Torben Hohn).
- Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric).
- Fixed some main window keyboard shortcuts. Escape key now closes
- Connections, Patchbay, Status and Messages widgets as usual (bug
- #2871548).
- Fixed glitch on configure portaudio support, specially when the
- library is not detected as available.
New in QjackCtl 0.3.5 (Jan 19, 2010)
- Late support for UTF-8 encoded client/port names.
- Allow only one single patchbay connection to or from an exclusive
- socket (mitigating bug #2859119).
- Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-
- traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure
- option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build
- targets (--enable-debug).
- Probable fix on the audio connections with regard to client/port
- (re)name changes (an ancient bug reported by Fons Adriaensen).
- Portaudio device selector is now available (after a patch handed
- by Torben Hohn and Stephane Letz).
- A couple of primitive D-Bus interface slots have been introduced,
- giving the option to start/stop the jackd server from the system
- bus eg. via dbus-send --system / org.rncbc.qjackctl.start (.stop),
- (a nice addition supplied by Robin Gareus, thanks).
- New command line option (-a, --active-patchbay=[path]) to specify
- and activate a given patchbay definition file (a simple patch sent
- by John Schneiderman, thanks).
- Added one significant digit to DSP Load percentage status display.
- Tentative support for netjack (slave) by adding the "net" driver to
- the existing backend driver options on the Setup/Settings section.
- Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
- New patchbay snapshot now raises the dirty flag and allows for the
- immediate salvage of patchbay definition profile.
- Conditional build for JACK port aliases support (JACK >= 0.109.2).
- Alternate icon sizes other than default 16x16, are now effective to
- the Connections widget (Setup/Dislay/Connections Window/Icon size).
New in QjackCtl 0.3.4 (Dec 6, 2008)
- Introducing the very first and complete translations in-package: German (de), Spanish (es), French (fr) and Russian (ru); credits in TRANSLATORS.
- At last, after years of retarded procrastination, the old infamous patchbay snapshot feature has been the subject of a almost complete rewrite and it does try to give a way better mapping of all actual and current running client/port connections, both JACK (audio, MIDI) and ALSA MIDI, of course ;)
- On Setup/Settings/Parameters dialog, all device selection options are now reset to default when disabled interactively.
- Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.
- Qt Software logo update.
- Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
- ALSA PCM devices now only listed/enumerated iif strictly compliant with the audio mode criteria (Duplex, Capture-only or Playback-only) as kindly suggested by Nedko Ardaunov.
- JACK client/port aliases may now be displayed as a global user option (see Setup/Display/Connections/JACK client/port aliases).
- Lighten up the connections line and highlight colors, as seen to fit best on some darker background themes.
- Patchbay snapshot fixed to differentiate socket clients according to its type (Audio, MIDI or ALSA-Seq), avoiding the mess and gross mistake of hanging disparate type ports under the same client item.
- JACK_DEFAULT_SERVER environment variable is now appended to the X11 unique application identifier, allowing for having multiple instances each controlling its own JACK server, besides the default one.
- Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding font size configuration, a new global user option is now available to the rescue: Setup/Misc/Defaults/Base font size (default is no-op).