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tuxguitar package

  1. Bug #311319
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 311319

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kenden (kenden) wrote : Re: [intrepid] tuxguitar needs the package timidity to have sound working

I think the point of this bug is that by default, the sound of tuxguitar is not working.
That forces the users to look in google or forums looking for "no sound in tuxguitar" to get it to work, that is not user friendly.
True story: a friend has been using tuxguitar with no sound for months, he thought it was a bug in the program.
I wonder how many people tried it, saw it didn't work, and uninstalled it.

The sound should be working by default. For platforms with no sound... users would not expect sound then! An error message could be displayed in this case anyway...

The best approach IMHO is to install tuixguitar-jsa automatically along with tuxguitar, and display a message to the user saying he/she could get better sound quality by installing timidity and configuring it in the preferences.
Maybe timidity should not be installed by default, as it is a deamon that would be running all the time.

Or, if nothing else, at least display a message on the first start up explaining what to do to get sound.