Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] Little bugs in the druid, in the devices' tests

[PUYDT Julien <julien puydt laposte net>]

On mer, 2003-09-10 at 19:17, Damien Sandras wrote:
> That is done on purpose. We have only 2 solutions here :
> - We apply settings on the fly, and it gives the behavior you are
> describing, settings in the druid and in the prefs are bound together,
> changing one, will change the other on-the-fly.
> - We apply the settings at the end of the druid. 
> 
> I don't consider that as a bug, but if you provide me a patch, I will
> apply it. If not, it will depend on my spare time as I don't consider
> this as a bug.

I consider it as a bug, since the new chosen device was applied to the
main window _before_ being successfully tested... if gm hadn't been able
to use it for the preview, I would have been instantly greeted with an
error message before I had the time to click on the test button!

And I won't provide a patch real soon, since I have to finish
yet-another-version of the plugins' system...

> The success message disappears when you are doing a new test. Nothing
> weird here.

I think it should disappear when it doesn't apply anymore, ie: when the
chosen device is changed.

> Thanks for the report, at least one person is testing! That's good.

Well, I was testing the next version of the plugins' system... and
passing by, I saw that... [of course, I reinstalled an earlier version
to check the problems weren't from the new code]

I found a new problem: that error opening the audio device happens
randomly... sometimes it just works ==> feels like a synch problem
between several threads, trying to access the same device, which is
weird.

By the way Damien, I should really tell you that the first time you call
the PDeviceManager class, it will load all system plugins, and it may be
a long operation. So you should make sure it happens at a convenient
time (after you show the splash screen, and not before/at the same
time). I tell you that now because sometimes I see the splash screen
appear as a grey square, and I think the plugins' loading may be the
cause (no proof, but well).

Snark