This is the initial release of gnome-arts which provides GTK+-2.0 based GUI frontends for common aRts features.

gnome-arts-0.1.2 is available for download from:

http://www.arts-project.org/download/gnome-arts-0.1.2.tar.gz

gnome-arts-0.1.2 also requires arts-0.5.4 and arts-extras-0.5.4 which are available from:

http://www.arts-project.org/download/arts-0.5.4.tar.gz http://www.arts-project.org/download/arts-extras-0.5.4.tar.gz

and pkgconfig-0.5.0 which is available from:

ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v1.3/extras/pkgconfig-0.5.0.tar.gz

This is a an unstable preview release and should not be used in production. Only minimal testing has been done, and we expect that bugs and portability problems remain at this point.

Bug reports and comments about this version of gnome-arts should be sent to csl@space.twc.de.

Overview of features in gnome-arts 0.1.1:

• proof-of-concept implementation of GLib main loop integration with aRts/MCOP
• provides gartscontrol, a GTK+-2.0 based GUI frontend to control artsd parameters. currently supported settings:
• main volume setting for artsd
• frequency spectrum view of server-sided FFT module
• cross-desktop-project pair-programming experience ;)

Other interesting stuff:

• the aRts/CSL talk held at the GUADEC