Audacity and other WxGTK programs only with GTK 1 support

[laksdjfaasdf]

The following programs are linked again WxGTK 2.4 which uses the outdated GTK 1:

Audacity
RapidSVN

Please link them against the new WxGTK 2.6 which uses GTK 2.

I think especially Audacity is a important piece of software and should look good for users.

If I find some other SW which uses WxGTK I will add it to this bug report.

[laksdjfaasdf (laksdjfaasdf)]

Version: Breezy Badger RC1

[Emmet Hikory (persia)]

Affected pacakges list (17 September 2005):

ctsim
ecosconfig
gambit
libwxgtk2.4-1-contrib
libwxgtk2.4-contrib-dev
openmsx-catapult
libwxgtk2.4-dev
linwsjt
poedit
python-wxgtk2.4
bittornado-gui
bittorrent-gui
cycle
gnue-forms-wxgtk
gnue-designer
gvr
gvr-lessons
londonlaw
scorched3d
scorched3d-doc
survex-aven
tipptrainer

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

I see in AUDACITY_1_2 branch that there have been recent commits to fix compiling against wxwidgets2.6, but there will not be enough time to regression-test an Audacity package compiled against wxwidgets2.6. Since we know Audacity works with wxwindows2.4, I'm voting to defer this to Dapper. Thanks for the note!

[Andrew Mitchell (ajmitch)]

A number of programs in that list do not work properly with wx 2.6 yet, and need upstream fixes

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

londonlaw is fixed and uploaded

[Stephan Rügamer (sruegamer)]

tipptrainer fixed and uploaded

[Matthew East (mdke)]

It's now nearly dapper, and Audacity is still well ugly, can this not be compiled with gtk2?

Matt

[laksdjfaasdf (laksdjfaasdf)]

Audacity works also with GTK2 now.

In SUSE 10 they compiled it with GTK2 support and it is stable for me and looks much, much better.

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

can you point to the relevant patch?

[laksdjfaasdf (laksdjfaasdf)]

@Reinhard:

I think I gave wrong information. I had a look at the installed Audacity and it seems that I downloaded it from

http://packman.links2linux.org

They offer Version 1.3 beta there. The version I downloaded there works with GTK2.

I cannot give you some patches but what about including Audacity 1.3 in Dapper - even it's beta it should be stable enough!?

Or as a workaround improve the look of old GTK1 applications so that they don't look as ugly as they did with older Ubuntu versions.

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

I'm sorry, but we are past feature freeze. We won't accept new applications or new upstream version of existing applications for dapper unless we have a good reason to do this.

audacity 1.3 is advertised as an experimental and possibly unstable branch, which adds a lot of new features. This does not help us to stabilize dapper.

We can upgrade audacity for dapper+1.

[Pavel Šefránek (pavelsefranek)]

Any changes? As I can see, Audacity still uses GTK 1.X :-(
No change from last post (it's 3 months!).

[Igor Zubarev (igor.zubarev)]

Still ugly russian fonts in Audacity and other GTK1 apps in Dapper.

[Sergous (sergous)]

If passible to get readable GTK1 cyrillic fonts it will be nice for new Ubuntu users. Now Audacity, GNUCash, XMMS GTK1 fonts (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xmms/+bug/36683) make applications unusable out of the box thith UTF-8 locale.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

My plan for Feisty is to update to audacity 1.2.6 (keeping its wxwindows2.4 and thus, gtk1, dependencies) and to introduce a new audacity1.3 source package (using wxwidgets2.6 and thus, gtk2).

Rejecting this Ubuntu task.