Bug#736335: gladish does not allow viewing of jack settings or copying of application settings

[Zenaan Harkness]

Package: gladish
Version: 1+dfsg0-4
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,
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As I continue to set up my audio system and experiment, I discover that
each time I need to check some jackd settings, I have to stop my whole
studio including the track I'm currently playing.

This is really annoying.

Also, I can view the settings for an application, but cannot copy the
application's command line, while it is running, either necessitating
stopping that app, or the whole studio, or having to manually retype it in
the other place that I need it (sometimes this has been documentation,
sometimes this is simply to run the app in a command shell to test
something else).

So, there are definitely some UI limitations in gladish.

Compare this to qjackctl, which _does_ allow viewing, and even changing!
the jackd settings, whilst jackd is running! (of course, with a little
warning that those settings will not take effect until jackd is
restarted).

So this behaviour of qjackctl is _much_ better, _much_ more convenient.
With gladish, I keep having to work around its limitations.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-rt-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gladish depends on:
ii  ladish                     1+dfsg0-4
ii  libart-2.0-2               2.3.21-2
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.10.0-2
ii  libatkmm-1.6-1             2.22.7-2
ii  libc6                      2.17-97
ii  libcairo2                  1.12.16-2
ii  libcairomm-1.0-1           1.10.0-1
ii  libdbus-1-3                1.7.10-2
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.100.2-1
ii  libflowcanvas5             0.7.1+dfsg0-0.2
ii  libfontconfig1             2.11.0-2
ii  libfreetype6               2.5.2-1
ii  libgcc1                    1:4.8.2-14
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.28.2-1+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.36.4-1
ii  libglibmm-2.4-1c2a         2.36.2-1
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0          2.30.3-2
ii  libgnomecanvasmm-2.6-1c2a  2.26.0-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.24.22-1
ii  libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a          1:2.24.4-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0             1.36.0-1+b1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0        1.36.0-1+b1
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0          1.36.0-1+b1
ii  libpangomm-1.4-1           2.34.0-1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a         2.2.10-0.2
ii  libstdc++6                 4.8.2-14

Versions of packages gladish recommends:
ii  laditools  1.0.1-2

gladish suggests no packages.

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