QjackCtl - JACK Audio Connection Kit Qt GUI Interface 
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ChangeLog


1.0.1  2024-08-01  A Summer'24 Release.

- Graph: thumb-view repositions and resizes immediately when
  visible.

- Graph: Implement patchbay node search functionality: adds a
  floating text-entry field, which appears when typing in the
  canvas, selecting nodes that contains the typed text (maybe
  regular expression).

- Graph: fixed a potential use-after-free issue on canvas nodes
  refresh and recycle.


1.0.0  2024-06-19  An Unthinkable Release.

- Making up the unthinkable (aka. v1.0.0)

- Cancel button option added to close to system-tray icon message.

- Graph: Introducing thumbview context-menu.


0.9.91  2024-05-01  A Spring'24 Release Candidate 2.

- Prepping the unthinkable (aka. v1.0.0-rc2)

- Graph: Introducing the View/Thumbview option as a whole graph
  thumbnail overview helper.

- Updated to latest framework level (Qt >= 6.7)


0.9.90  2024-04-10  A Spring'24 Release Candidate.

- Prepping the unthinkable (aka. v1.0.0-rc1)

- Custom color themes are now file based (*.conf); legacy still
  preserved ntl.

- Old generic "Portuguese" translation (pt) has been corrected to  
  the more proper "Portuguese (Brazil)" locale (pt_BR).

- Simplified and shortened the main window title.


0.9.13  2024-01-24  A Winter'24 Release.

- Graph: Make the main canvas background to mid-gray, when on
  non-dark color themes.

- Turkish (tr) translation added.

- Updated copyright headers into the New Year (2024).


0.9.12  2023-09-09  An End-of-Summer'23 Release.

- Setup: disable Settings parameters altogether, except frames/period
  (aka. buffer-size) if running in the so called 'Active' pure-client
  mode (eg. under PipeWire's pw-jack substitution).

- Connections: Fixed an old JACK client/ports aliases malfunction,
  hopefully.

- Graph: Ctrl+left or middle-button click-dragging for panning, is
  now a lot smoother, hopefully.

- Graph: Click-dragging with the mouse middle-button is now used
  for panning only, not to start a selection anymore.

- Preppings to next development cycle (Qt >= 6.6)


0.9.11  2023-06-01  A Spring'23 Release.

- Graph: Soft incremental bounds constraints now imposed to all
  new and old nodes positioning.

- Prepping into the next development cycle (with Qt >= 6.5).


0.9.10  2023-03-23  An Early-Spring'23 Release.

- Setup: revert to previous settings when dismissing the dialog.

- Graph: Attempt to make port labels as short as possible.

- Graph: introducing touch pinch-gesture for zooming.


0.9.9  2022-12-28  An End-of-Year'22 Release.

- Graph: whether to draw connectors through or around nodes is a
  new user preference option (cf. View > Connect Through Nodes).

- Graph: Allow middle mouse button for grabbing and dragging the
  main canvas.

- Make up visual immediate feedback connectlons.


0.9.8  2022-10-03  An Early-Autumn'22 release.

- Graph: View / Repel Overlapping Nodes option added.

- Avoid nagging on D-BUS error messsage windows (or bubbles) when
  trying to start in pure JACK client mode (Active).

- Add current system user-name to the singleton/unique application
  instance identifier.

- Graph/Connect and Disconnect keyboard shortcuts added to existing
  [Ins] and [Del], as [Ctrl+C] and [Ctrl+D] respectively; also added
  [F2] as brand new keyboard shortcut for Edit/Rename...


0.9.7  2022-04-02  A Spring'22 Release.

- Main application icon is now presented in scalable format (SVG).

- Migrated command line parsing to QCommandLineParser/Option
  (Qt >= 5.2)

- Fixed translations path to be relative to application runtime.


0.9.6  2022-01-09  A Winter'22 Release.

- Dropped autotools (autoconf, automake, etc.) build system.

- Limit or mitigate fast auto-scrolling when moving Graph client
  nodes off the viewport.

- Whenever possible, adopt the previous named default preset,
  when starting the JACK-server on premises.

- Conditional fix to MacOSX and FreeBSD builds.



0.9.5  2021-10-05  An Autumn'21 Release.

- Streamlined Windows and MacOSX deliverables (by Alexis Murzeau).

- Korean (ko) translation added (by JungHee Lee).


0.9.4  2021-07-04  An Early-Summer'21 Release.

- All builds default to Qt6 (Qt >= 6.1) where available.

- CMake is now the official build system.


0.9.3  2021-05-11  A Spring'21 Release.

- Graph connection lines drop-shadow eye-candy has been optimized,
  improving a lot on moving highly-connected nodes, especially the
  ones with plenty of backward-curved connections.

- All packaging builds switching to CMake.

- Fixed default preset/aliases switching and reloading when entering 
  pure-client mode (ie. "Active" status).


0.9.2  2021-03-14  An End-of-Winter'21 Release.

- Clock source, Self-connect mode and Server synchronous mode 
  options are now always enabled on the Setup / Settings dialog,
  although only available or effective to jackd2.
  
- Graph Disconnect now applies to selected connections or nodes only.


0.9.1  2021-02-07  A Winter'21 Release.

- Graph Disconnect now applies to all selected ports and connections.

- Main window is now freely resizable, while keeping all the buttons 
  stretched to the same aspect ratio.

- Warning to confirm application close is now back in business when 
  functioning as client only (Active).

- Graph items are automatically raised when created or high-lighted 
  (incremental z-value).

- Add a little but straight horizontal line-gap to the Graph 
  connections.

- Customize the Graph zoom slider widget to reset upon mouse 
  middle-button click.

- Add Clear preset button to Setup dialog.

- Use default values for most preset parameters: sample rate, 
  frames/period (aka. buffer-size), periods/buffer, realtime
  priority, port maximum, client timeout, word length, wait time,
  channel maximum.

- Early preparations for the New Year develop(ment) cycle.


0.9.0  2020-12-17  A Winter'20 Release.

- List only available backend drivers when JACK D-BUS is enabled.

- Graph client-name / node-title aliases persistence have been 
  hopefully fixed.

- Get rid of those "JACK has crashed" red-herrings from latest 
  Windows(tm) builds.

- Early fixing to build for Qt >= 6.0.0 and comply with C++17 
  standard.


0.6.3  2020-07-31  A Summer'20 Release.

- Clock source and Self connect restriction options have been added 
  to Setup / Settings / Advanced (only enabled when JACK D-BUS control 
  interface is in effect).

- Added preliminary support for JACK CV signal-type ports and JACK 
  OSC event-type ports (Graph only).

- Left-clicking on the system-tray icon now simply toggles the main 
  widget visibility, disregarding if already hidden undercover to 
  other windows.

- Graph nodes and ports are now presented with some gradient 
  background.

- Fixed Setup dialog Cancel (or close) behavior when Settings > 
  Parameters > Frames/Period (aka. buffer- size) it's the only
  setting that's changed.

- Early fixing to build for Qt >= 5.15.0.

  
0.6.2  2020-03-24  A Spring'20 Release.

- A scalable (.svg) icon version has been added.

- Make man page compression reproducible (after request by Jelle
  van der Waa, while on the Vee-Ones, thanks).

- Ditching deprecated QTime methods for QElapsedTimer's (in 
  compliance to Qt >= 5.14.0).

- Bumped copyright headers into the New Year (2020).


0.6.1  2019-12-22  The Winter'19 Release.

- Custom color (palette) theme editor introduced; color (palette) 
  theme changes are now effective immediately, except on default.

- Second attempt to fix the yet non-official though CMake build 
  configuration.

- When using autotools and ./configure --with-qt=..., it is also 
  necessary to adjust the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
  (after a merge request by plcl aka. Pedro López-Cabanillas,
  while on qmidinet, thanks).


0.6.0  2019-10-17  An Autumn'19 Release.

- Graph: avoid self-connecting over their own ports when client 
  nodes are selected as a whole group; also try to match port-types
  in a oderly fashion when connecting multiple selected ports.

- Changing current JACK buffer size from Setup dialog (cf. Settings 
  /Frames/Period) may now take effect just immediately ;)

- An 'Apply' button as been added to the Setup dialog; ask whether 
  to restart the JACK audio server, if any settings are changed.

- Added alternate yet non-official CMake build option.

- Fix HiDPI display screen effective support (Qt >= 5.6).

- Command line arguments (--start, --preset=[label] and --active
  -patchbay=[path]) are passed and take effect on the current 
  singleton/unique application instance, when enabled and already 
  running.

- System-tray icon context menu has been refactored to be exactly 
  the same as the main-window context menu that is re-instantiated
  on demand.

- Make sure compiler flags comply to c++11 as standard.


0.5.9  2019-07-12  A Summer'19 Release.

- Updated for the newer Qt5 translation tools (>= 5.13).

- Configure updated to check for qtchooser availability.



0.5.8  2019-05-25  A Spring'19 Release.

- When enabled the current default preset settings are now read
  from the last known JACK D-BUS configuration.

- Minor update to Debian packaging control file.

- Removed all the remaining leftovers of old pre-FFADO 'freebob' 
  driver support.


0.5.7  2019-03-11  A Spring-Break'19 Release.

- Graph node and port title renaming and nodes position move changes 
  are now undo/redo-able.

- Graph client and port title in-place renaming is now integrated to 
  native aliases and JACK metadata (aka. pretty-names).
  
- Refactored all native client/port name aliases.

- Re-defined all main application UNIX signal handling.


0.5.6  2019-03-11  Pre-LAC2019 Release Frenzy.

- Refactored all singleton/unique application instance setup logic 
  away from X11/Xcb hackery.

- At last, JACK freewheel mode is now being detected as to postpone 
  any active patchbay scans as much as possible.
  
- Removed old pre-FFADO 'freebob' driver support.

- HiDPI display screen support (Qt >= 5.6).

- Graph port temporary highlighting while hovering, if and only if 
  connecting ports of same type and complementary modes.

- Bumped copyright headers into the New Year (2019).


0.5.5  2018-11-23  A Black-Friday'18 Release!

- Old deprecated Qt4 build support is no more.

- Graph port sort options added as View / Sort menu.

- System tray options now subject to current desktop environment 
  availability.

- Also disable Setup / Misc / Other / Save JACK server configuration 
  to (.jackdrc) when JACK D-Bus interface is enabled.

- Whether to use server synchronous mode option added to Setup / 
  Settings / Parameters (only applied when JACK D-BUS interface is 
  enabled).

- Disable some Setup / Settings / Advanced parameters when JACK 
  D-Bus interface is enabled and vice-versa.

- Attempt to power-cycle JACK D-Bus service on demand;

- Marked as probably useless anyway, old "H/W Monitor" option (-H) 
  is now being ditched from Setup / Settings / Advanced tab.

- Graph port/connections highlighting.


0.5.4  2018-09-24  An Early Autumn'18 Release.

- Graph port-type colors are now configurable (cf. menu View > 
  Colors.

- Make Graph nodes (ie. client boxes) transparent for yet some 
  eye-candiness ;). Also keep the (Graph) current selection across 
  port (dis)connections.

- Drawing patchbay connector lines as (bezier) curves is now a 
  difinitive and fixed feature (as long as no more remains from the
  so called "Cambric explosion era" are still lurking in there).

- AppStream metadata updated to be the most compliant with latest 
  freedesktop.org specification and recommendation.

- Graph auto-layout improvement for brand new node clients.

- Avoid showing setup warning when no server settings have changed.

- Fixed JACK D-Bus settings for MIDI driver parameter.


0.5.3  2018-07-22  A Summer'18 Release.

- Portuguese (pt) translation added (by Heitor Rocha).

- AppData/AppStream metadata is now settled under an all permisssive 
  license (FSFAP).

- Improved Graph rubberband add (Shift) and toggle (Ctrl) multiple 
  (de)selections.

- Added user preference option: Setup / Misc / Buttons / Replace 
  Connections with Graph button (on main window).

- Added a zoom slider control to the Graph view status bar.


0.5.2  2018-05-27  Pre-LAC2018 release frenzy hotfix.

- Respect ALSA Sequencer support option also on Graph view.

- Regression to new Graph node/ports sorting comparator; also fixed 
  multiple and many port removals, most probably causing it to crash 
  due to double-free/delete potential.

- Fixed the automatic aggregation of new Graph client nodes that are 
  split as either input or output only (ie. system, terminal, physical 
  or otherwise non-duplex nodes).

- Added View/Zoom Range mode option to Graph tool.


0.5.1  2018-05-21  Pre-LAC2018 release frenzy.

- Half a decade later, recent new custom entries may now get removed 
  from Session Infra-client list.

- Some rather old, better said "Cambric explosion era", user 
  preference options have been ditched altogether: Display / Time 
  Format; Display / Shiny glass light effect; Display / 
  Connections/Draw connections and patchbay lines as Bezier curves; 
  Misc/Configure as temporary server.

- A brand new and way long overdue connections Graph widget is 
  finally introduced, only to be accessible through the context menu 
  at this time.

- Extended multi-selection is now supported on all Connections 
  client/port lists, allowing for multiple (dis)connections at once.

- Disable singleton/unique application instance setup logic when the 
  display server platform is not X11.

- A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side.


0.5.0  2017-12-16  End of Autum'17 release.

- Current preset is always taken into account if ever changes while 
  the Setup dialog is hidden (eg. via context menu).

- Desktop entry specification file is now finally independent from 
  build/configure template chains.

- Updated target path for freedesktop.org's AppStream metainfo file 
  (formerly AppData).


0.4.5  2017-04-27  Pre-LAC2017 release frenzy.

- On some desktop-shells, the system tray icon blinking on XRUN 
  ocurrences, have been found responsible to excessive CPU usage,
  an "eye-candy" effect which is now optional as far as  Setup/
  Display/Blink server mode indicator goes.

- Added French man page (by Olivier Humbert, thanks).

- Make builds reproducible byte for byte, by getting rid of the 
  configure build date and time stamps.


0.4.4  2016-11-14  A Fall'16 release.

- Fixed an early crash when the singleton/unique application 
  instance setup option is turned off.

- Almost complete overhaul on the configure script command
  line options, wrt. installation directories specification,
  eg. --prefix, --bindir, --libdir, --datadir and --mandir.


0.4.3  2016-09-14  End of Summer'16 release.

- Fix build error caused by variable length array.

- Fix some tooltip spelling (patch by Jaromír Mikeš, thanks). 

- Translation (not) fix for the default server name "(default)".

- Old "Start minimized to system tray" option returns to setup.

- Dropped the --enable-qt5 from configure as found redundant given 
  that's the build default anyway (suggestion by Guido Scholz, while 
  for Qtractor, thanks).

- Late again French (fr) translation update (by Olivier Humbert aka. 
  trebmuh, thanks).


0.4.2  2016-04-05  Spring'16 release frenzy.

- Added a brand new "Enable JACK D-BUS interface" option, split from 
  the old common "Enable D-BUS interface" setup option which now 
  refers to its own self D-BUS interface exclusively.

- Dropped old "Start minimized to system tray" option from setup.

- Add double-click action (toggle start/stop) to systray (a pull 
  request by Joel Moberg, thanks).

- Added application keywords to freedesktop.org's AppData.

- System-tray icon context menu has been fixed/hacked to show up 
  again on Plasma 5 (aka. KDE5) notification status area.

- Switched column entries in the unified interface device combo- box 
  to make it work for macosx/coreaudio again.

- Blind fix to a FTBFS on macosx/coreaudio platforms, a leftover 
  from the unified interface device selection combo-box inception, 
  almost two years ago.

- Prevent x11extras module from use on non-X11/Unix plaforms.

- Late French (fr) translation update (by Olivier Humbert, thanks).


0.4.1  2015-10-28  A Fall'15 release.

- Probing portaudio audio device in a separate thread (by Kjetil 
  Matheussen, thanks).

- Messages standard output capture has been improved again, now in 
  both ways a non-blocking pipe may get.

- Regression fix for invalid system-tray icon dimensions reported
  by some desktop environment frameworks.

- New hi-res application icon (by Uttrup Renzel, Max Christian 
  Pohle, thanks).

- System tray icon red background now blinks when a XRUN occurs.

- Desktop environment session shutdown/logout management has been 
  also adapted to Qt5 framework.

- Single/unique application instance control adapted to Qt5/X11.

- Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script.

- Overrideable tooltips with latency info (re. Connections JACK 
  client/ports: patch by Xavier Mendez, thanks).

- Complete rewrite of Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.

- French (fr) translation update (by Olivier Humbert, thanks).


0.4.0  2015-07-15  Summer'15 release frenzy.

- Some windows fixes added (patch by Kjetil Matheussen, thanks).

- Most advanced Setup/Settings are moved into new Setup/Advanced 
  settings tab; limit range for the real-time priority setting, now 
  having 6 as absolute minimum valid value (after patches by Robin 
  Gareus, thanks).

- A new top-level widget window geometry state save and restore 
  sub-routine is now in effect.

- Delayed geometry setup for widget windows upon startup has been 
  deprecated and scrapped altogether.

- Setup/settings dialog tab is going into some layout changes; also 
  got rid of old patchbay auto-refresh timer cruft, which was 
  previously hidden/disabled.

- New socket names are now automatically inferred from selected 
  client names while on the Patchbay widget, Socket dialog.

- Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.

- German (de) translation update (by Guido Scholz, thanks).


0.3.13  2015-03-25  Pre-LAC2015 release frenzy.

- Added application description as freedesktop.org's AppData.

- Setup dialog form is now modeless.

- Introducing brand new active patchbay reset/disconnect-all user 
  preference option.

- Current highlighted client/port connections are now drawn with 
  thicker connector lines.

- New user preference option on whether to show the nagging 'program 
  will keep running in the system tray' message, on main window close.

- Connections lines now drawn with anti-aliasing; connections 
  splitter handles width is now reduced.

- Drop missing or non-existent patchbay definition files from the 
  most recent used list.


0.3.12  2014-10-19  JACK Pretty-names aliasing.

- JACK client/port pretty-name (metadata) support is being 
  introduced and seamlessly integrated with old Connections 
  client/port aliases editing (rename) (refactored from an
  original patch by Paul Davis, thanks).

- Application close confirm warning is now raising the main window 
  as visible and active for due top level display, especially 
  applicable when minimized to the system tray.

- Messages standard output capture has been slightly improved as
  for non-blocking i/o, whenever available.

- Translations install directory change.

- Allow the build system to include an user specified LDFLAGS.

- Missing input/output-latency parameter settings now settled for 
  the D-BUS controlled JACK server and firewire back-end driver.


0.3.11  2013-12-31  A fifth of a Jubilee.

- More preparations for Qt5 configure build.

- Interface device selection is now unified, by moving the old '>' 
  pop-up menu into the customized combo-box drop-down list showing all 
  available card/device names and descriptions (on a patch by Arnout 
  Engelen, thanks).

- Added include <unistd.h> to shut up gcc 4.7 build failures (patch 
  by Alexis Ballier, thanks).


0.3.10  2013-04-01  The singing swan rehersal.

- Session infra-client management finally being added.

- Preparations for Qt5 migration.

- Transport tempo (BPM) precision display fixed to 4 digits.

- Color-candy (dang old ANSI terminal?) escape sequences are now 
  silently stripped from jackdbus messages captured log (onliner
  from original patch by Brendan Jones, thanks).

- List ALSA device card id. string instead of device number, while 
  on setup dialog.

- Japanese (ja) translation added (by Takashi Sakamoto).


0.3.9  2012-05-18  The last of the remnants.

- Killing D-BUS controlled JACK server is now made optional, cf. 
  Setup/Misc/Stop JACK audio server on application exit. (a patch by 
  Roland Mas, thanks).

- Added include <unistd.h> to shut up gcc 4.7 build failures.

- Make(ing) -jN parallel builds now available for the masses.

- A mis-quoting bug at the command line argument string may have 
  been crippling the (unmaintained) Windows port since ever, leaving 
  its main function to start jackd dead in the water, belly down :) 
  now hopefully fixed (following a mail transaction with Stephane
  Letz and Mathias Nagorni, thanks).

- Currently a JACK2-only feature, the JACK version string display at 
  the About dialog box, must now be explicitly enabled on configure 
  time (--enable-jack-version).

- A new so called "Server Suffix" parameter option appears to rescue 
  on the situations where QjackCtl falls short on extra, exquisite 
  and/or esoteric command line options eg. (net)jack1/2 differences.

- Fixed D-Bus Input/Output device parameter settings, filled when 
  either interface is selected for Capture/Playback only. (probable 
  fix for bug #3441860).

- Fixed Makefile.in handling of installation directories to the 
  configure script eg. --datadir, --localedir, --mandir. (after an 
  original patch from h3xx, thanks).

- Main window is now brought to front and (re)activated when 
  clicking on the system tray icon instead of just hiding it.

- Add current xrun count to the system tray icon tooltip, if not 
  zero (after patch #3314633 by Colin Fletcher, thanks).


0.3.8  2011-07-01  JACK Session versioning.

- Debugging stacktrace now applies to all working threads.

- Session "Save" button now a drop-down menu, replacing the session 
  save type combo-box/drop-down list selection. Also, an early session 
  directory versioning/numbering scheme is now in place, although 
  optional.

- Probable fix to debian bug report #624198 - segfault when pressing 
  the stop button (by Grant Adrian Diffey, after a patch from Adrian 
  Knoth, thanks).

- Desktop environment session shutdown (eg. logout) is now tapped 
  for graceful application exit, even though the main window is
  active (visible) and minimizing to system tray is enabled. Both
  were causing first shutdown/logout attempt to abort. Not anymore, 
  hopefully ;).

- Make sure all activated patchbay definition files are in their 
  complete and absolute directory path forms.

- Connections refresh button now does an immediate and true 
  reconstruction of all clients and their respective ports and 
  connections, unconditionally.

- Command line server start option (-s, --start) is now made 
  independent from configuration setup option (cf. Setup/Misc/Start 
  JACK audio server on application startup).

- Now handling cable socket types properly to let patchbay 
  definitions work correctly, whenever having sockets with the very 
  same literal name (twisted from patch #3183467, by Karsten, 
  thanks;).

- Abrupt focus behavior when any of the keyboard modifiers (Shift, 
  Ctrl, Alt, Caps Lock) is hit while on Connections client/port 
  aliases editing (rename) has been fixed.

- Russian (ru) translation updated (by Alexandre Prokoudine).

- Added include "errno.h" alegedly missing for BSD style systems 
  (applying patch for bug #3126091).


0.3.7  2010-11-30  JACK Session managerism.

- Session widget has session save type preserved as well.

- Connections and the new Messages/Status widgets now have their 
  last open tab preserved across program run-cycles.

- Connections and Patchbay widgets have been finally given up on
  an old feature request: an Expand All items button.

- A significant UI layout has been made: the Messages and Status 
  widgets were merged into one, giving space to the brand new Session 
  wigdet to be easy accessible from the main panel control window.

- libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase, as 
  seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13, Debian 
  6. (closing bug #3050915).

- Input/Output latency options were missing but now finally enabled 
  for the firewire back-end.

- General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.

- Avoid pre-loading a stalled patchbay definition filename and its 
  nagging error on startup (fixes bug #3017078).

- Client connection retrial logic scrapped. Being a leftover from 
  early ages, when machines were slower and JACK server startup times 
  were longer... now, if it can't connect first time as client, it 
  will tear down the server whether it's starting up still or not at 
  all. (cf. Setup/Settings/Start Delay for the rescue).

- Server name is finally part of the server settings presets, thanks 
  to Fons Adriaensen for the heads-up.

- As a workaround regarding issues switching jack2's backends, Robin 
  Gareus sends us yet another D-Bus method slot: "preset", (dbus-send 
--system / org.rncbc.qjackctl.preset string:PRESET). Thanks again.

- Another D-Bus interface slot makes it through implementation: 
  "quit" (eg. usage: dbus-send --system / org.rncbc.qjackctl.quit). 
  Besides, there's also these new JACK session management actions 
  which were being overlooked as well: "load", "save", "savequit"
  and "savetemplate" are also available as D-Bus method slots.

- Make sure that Patchbay socket names are unique when adding or 
  copying, fixing previous patch by Dominic Sacre.

- JACK version is now being shown on the About box (jack2).

- Slight Connections widget behavioral change: (dis)connecting a 
  client (from) to one single port, (dis)connections will be applied 
  in sequence from (to) all client output ports to (from) as many 
  input ports there are in below, one by one (satisfying a 5 year
  old request from Yann Orlarey, thanks:).

- JACK session support is being introduced.

- Ignore first XRUN occurrence option dropped from statistics.

- Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has been 
  slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to wrong main 
  widget hidden state.

- Double-quotes are now being added to device names which include 
  blank characters and were rendering invalid all command line 
  invocation of the classic JACK server (eg. specially due for 
  Portaudio device names on Windows).
  
- Transport play (rolling) status is now being guarded to avoid 
  backfiring from extraneous transport state changes.

- General source tree layout and build configuration change.

- Italian (it) translation added (by Sergio Atzori).

- Post-shutdown script invocation logic slightly refactored in 
  attempt to enforce its execution on application quit.


0.3.6  2010-03-09  Full D-Busification!

- Make sure socket names are unique on each side of the Patchbay 
  (another patch from Dominic Sacre, thanks).

- A bunch of primitive D-Bus interface slots have been added, 
  allowing shortcut access to most of main applications actions like 
  toggling Messages, Status, Connections, Patchbay widget pop-ups, 
  reset stats, transport and so on. New bindings are given eg. via 
  dbus-send --system / org.rncbc.qjackctl.(main, messages, status, 
  connections, patchbay, setup, about, reset, rewind, backward, play, 
  pause, forward). (from an original idea from Sebastian Gutsfeld, 
  thanks).

- Patchbay snapshot now tolerates JACK client port strings that have 
  more than one semi-colon in it, honoring just the first one exactly 
  as everywhere else eg. Connections. (a glitch as reported by Geoff 
  Beasley while using a2jmidid).

- Most modal message dialog boxes (eg. critical errors) are now 
  replaced by system tray icon bubble messages where available 
  (mitigating feature request #2936455).

- Comply with jackd >= 0.118.0 which nowruns in real-time mode by 
  default; use of -R is now deprecated from the jackd command line 
  interface options; use -r to run in non-real-time-scheduling.

- A man page has beed added.

- Got rid of a pretty old and never really useful "jackd-realtime" 
  server path option--actually, it was only seen available on the
  now defunct old Mandrake Linux distro.

- D-Bus support, as provided by org.jackaudio.service aka jackdbus, 
  is now being introduced and used wherever available and whenever 
  enabled. Configuring, starting, stopping and logging the JACK 
  back-end server through the "infamous" jackdbus service is now
  being seamlessly exploited.

- Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to 
  disk when Setup dialog changes are accepted and applied.

- Server name command line option added (-n, --server-name).

- Single application instance restriction option added (X11).

- Setup for the netjack (slave) "net" driver has now sample-rate and 
  frames per buffer (period size) settings disabled and/or ignored, as 
  those are pretty much auto-detected by default; also, a new "netone" 
  backend driver option has been introduced (as suggested by Torben 
  Hohn).

- Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric).

- Fixed some main window keyboard shortcuts. Escape key now closes 
  Connections, Patchbay, Status and Messages widgets as usual (bug 
  #2871548).

- Fixed glitch on configure portaudio support, specially when the 
  library is not detected as available.


0.3.5  2009-09-30  Slipped away!

- Late support for UTF-8 encoded client/port names.

- Allow only one single patchbay connection to or from an exclusive 
  socket (mitigating bug #2859119).

- Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back- 
  traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure 
  option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build 
  targets (--enable-debug).

- Probable fix on the audio connections with regard to client/port 
  (re)name changes (an ancient bug reported by Fons Adriaensen).

- Portaudio device selector is now available (after a patch handed 
  by Torben Hohn and Stephane Letz).

- A couple of primitive D-Bus interface slots have been introduced, 
  giving the option to start/stop the jackd server from the system bus 
  eg. via dbus-send --system / org.rncbc.qjackctl.start (.stop), (a 
  nice addition supplied by Robin Gareus, thanks).

- New command line option (-a, --active-patchbay=[path]) to specify 
  and activate a given patchbay definition file (a simple patch sent 
  by John Schneiderman, thanks).

- Added one significant digit to DSP Load percentage status display.

- Tentative support for netjack (slave) by adding the "net" driver 
  to the existing backend driver options on the Setup/Settings 
  section.

- Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.

- New patchbay snapshot now raises the dirty flag and allows for the 
  immediate salvage of patchbay definition profile.

- Conditional build for JACK port aliases support (JACK >= 0.109.2).

- Alternate icon sizes other than default 16x16, are now effective 
  to the Connections widget (Setup/Dislay/Connections Window/Icon 
  size).


0.3.4  2008-12-05  Patchbay snapshot revamp.

- Introducing the very first and complete translations in-package: 
  German (de), Spanish (es), French (fr) and Russian (ru); credits
  in TRANSLATORS.

- At last, after years of retarded procrastination, the old infamous 
  patchbay snapshot feature has been the subject of a almost complete 
  rewrite and it does try to give a way better mapping of all actual 
  and current running client/port connections, both JACK (audio, MIDI) 
  and ALSA MIDI, of course ;)

- On Setup/Settings/Parameters dialog, all device selection options 
  are now reset to default when disabled interactively.

- Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.

- Qt Software logo update.

- Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.

- ALSA PCM devices now only listed/enumerated iif strictly compliant 
  with the audio mode criteria (Duplex, Capture-only or Playback-only) 
  as kindly suggested by Nedko Ardaunov.

- JACK client/port aliases may now be displayed as a global user 
  option (see Setup/Display/Connections/JACK client/port aliases).

- Lighten up the connections line and highlight colors, as seen to 
  fit best on some darker background themes.

- Patchbay snapshot fixed to differentiate socket clients according 
  to its type (Audio, MIDI or ALSA-Seq), avoiding the mess and gross 
  mistake of hanging disparate type ports under the same client item.

- JACK_DEFAULT_SERVER environment variable is now appended to the 
  X11 unique application identifier, allowing for having multiple 
  instances each controlling its own JACK server, besides the default 
  one.

- Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding 
  font size configuration, a new global user option is now available 
  to the rescue: Setup/Misc/Defaults/Base font size (default is 
  no-op).


0.3.3  2008-06-07  Patchbay JACK-MIDI, file logging and X11 uniqueness.

- Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of the 
  ever warning startup message, unless built in debug mode. 
  (transaction by Guido Scholz, while on qsynth-devel, thanks).

- Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance, 
  with user configurable settings in Setup/Options/Logging.

- Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and running, 
  with immediate but graceful termination upon startup iif an already 
  running instance is detected, which will see its main widget shown 
  up and the server started automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).

- Finally, full JACK MIDI support sneaks into the patchbay; socket 
  types now differ in Audio, MIDI and ALSA, following the very same 
  nomenclature as found on the Connections widget tabs.

- Sun driver support (by Jacob Meuser).

- Delay window positioning at startup option is now being disabled, 
  on the Setup/Misc tab, when Minimize to system tray is enabled.

- Cosmetic fix: Setup/Settings tab, 'Input Device' text label was 
  using a slightly smaller font than the rest of the application 
  (bug#1872545, reported by Jouni Rinne).


0.3.2  2007-12-20  Patchbay heads-up with season greetings.

- Patchbay port matching has been slightly extended, this time 
  allowing for the multiple or as many-to-many connections between 
  socket plugs, provided these are specified in proper regex form 
  (after a patch proposed by Dave Moore, thanks).

- A new option to start the program minimized when the system tray 
  icon is enabled, is now available from Setup/Misc/Start minimized to 
  system tray (as kindly suggested by Marc-Olivier Barre).

- Regression from QSystemTrayIcon (Qt4 >= 4.2) implementation, at 
  least on X11 environments: while the main application widget was 
  minimized to the system-tray, closing any other top-level widget was 
  causing the immediate and unexpected application shutdown.

- Some portaudio backend settings are now being enabled, specially 
  suited for the jackdmp flavouring.

- Server mode display blinking, usually shown as the RT indicator, 
  is now an option (Setup/Display/Blink server mode indicator when 
  started). 

- Tool/child windows position and size preservation fixed.

- The connections/patchbay auto-refresh option has been finally 
  removed due to several user requests, although deprecated for quite 
  some time now it has been the probable cause of some periodic xrun 
  occurrences due to graph-locking in jackd (while making Geoff 
  Beasley angry in the process:).

- Messages line limit was not being checked, now honored.

- Simple as it could ever be, the build executive summary report is 
  now given on configure.

- Patchbay snapshot ot its socket and port ordering back.

- ALSA Sequencer support is now an optional feature on setup, 
  preventing the annoying "MIDI patchbay will be not available" 
  warning message, ruining window placement on Linux systems where the 
  snd-midi-seq kernel module is not loaded or not favorable (eg. OSS) 
  at startup (by request from Jussi Laako).

- Get configure to try and detect the correct qmake location and 
  insert it the search order, so let the qt4 tools take precedence 
  when --with-qt option is given and older qt3 ones coexist and are 
  found located ahead in the PATH.

- The connections widget is now being properly refreshed, due to 
  some quirk in the QTreeWidget which was preventing some items, 
  specially the expanded ones, to disappear in the void. Meanwhile, 
  with a hand from Stephane Letz, the client/port lookup method was 
  changed to prevent duplicated, missing entries or worse, crashes
  due to weird behaved windows applications.

- The xrun count stats can now be reset simply by middle clicking on 
  the systray icon or the main window's display area (thanks to patch 
  sent by Dominic Sacre).

- An improved version of the "shiny" background image was issued. 
  The original somehow looked like two different images put together, 
  probably most apparent on a bright TFT screen (by Dominic Sacre).

- A warning is now being issued, asking whether one wants to remove 
a corresponding Patchbay connection, when client/ports are being 
  disconnected over the Connections window, thus avoiding automatic 
  reconnection annoyance due to normal active Patchbay behavior.

- The infamous "Keep child windows always on top" global option is 
  now supposed to behave a little better when disabled, layering
  child windows as naturally as far the window manager dictates.

- Input/Output Channel setting is now allowed to be greater than 32; 
  the special default text is now displayed, also on Input/Output 
  Latency and Priority settings spin-boxes. 

- Andreas Persson just sent a patch that makes it possible to 
  compile and run qjackctl with Qt version 4.1. Applied without 
  hesitation, thanks.


0.3.1a  2007-07-19  System-tray tooltip icon crash fix.

- An immediate showstopper crash upon client start was irradicated, 
  which was affecting those with the system-tray icon disabled, as is 
  the default (thanks to Ken Ellinwood for first reporting this sloppy 
  one).


0.3.1  2007-07-18  Shallowed bug-fix release.

- The current DSP load percentage activity is now also displayed on 
  the system-tray icon tooltip.

- An illusive but nasty Connections/Patchbay item tooltip crash bug 
  has been hopefully fixed (Qt >= 4.3).

- Now using QSystemTrayIcon class facility if available (Qt4 >= 4.2) 
  making the system-tray option available on most platforms, notably 
  on Windows and Mac OS X.

- Usage of QProcess class has been severely refactored, now using 
  QProcess::start() instead of QProcess::startDetached(), giving much 
  tighter control over the started jackd(mp) process. Downside is that 
  QjackCtl lost its ability and option to leave the process detached 
  upon quitting the application. Too bad.

- A new eye-candy bit has sneaked in: server mode display, that is 
  the RT indicator, now blinks when server/client is started/active.

- Combo-box setup history has been corrected on restore, which was 
  discarding the very initial default (factory) contents.

- Now that Qt4 is accessible to open-source Windows appplications, 
  there's some experimental stuff sneaking in for jackdmp support on 
  win32 (http://www.grame.fr/~letz/jackdmp.html). 

- Connections list items were initially sorted in descending order 
  by default. Fixed. Client items are now naturally sorted, again.


0.3.0  2007-07-10  Qt4 migration was complete.

- Qt4 migration was complete. Care must be taken with this new 
  configuration file and location: this release starts a new one from 
  scratch and won't reuse any of the previous existing ones, although 
  cut and paste might help if you know what you're doing :)

- On a last-minute addition, the "firewire" audio backend driver 
  option has been also included, supporting the ffado.org project 
  which is evolving where "freebob" is leaving (thanks to Klaus 
  Zimmermann for this one).


0.2.23  2007-07-02  JACK MIDI support debut.

- JACK MIDI support is now being introduced. Connections window now 
  has a brand new MIDI tab, the older being renamed to ALSA, as for 
  the ALSA/MIDI sequencer conveniency. The server settings now include 
  the MIDI driver setup option (ALSA backend only).

- Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps; 
  application desktop entry file is now included in installation;
  spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant; initial 
  debianization.

- Invalidation of the JACK client handle is now forced right on 
  jack_shutdown notification, preventing a most probable fatal crash 
  due to jack_deactivate and/or jack_client_close being called after 
  the jack_watchdog kicks in.

- Default font option names were adjusted to "Sans Serif" and 
  "Monospace", wherever available.

- The "keep child windows always on top" option is not set as 
  default anymore, because window focus behavior gets tricky on some 
  desktop environments (eg. Mac OS X, Gnome).

- Autoconf (configure) scripting gets an update.


0.2.22  2007-03-31  Long overdue but better late than never.

- Fixed default settings for the freebob backend (JACK >= 0.103.0).

- CPU Load status label now says correctly DSP Load.

- The most recently used patchbay definitions can now be correctly 
  selected in round-robin fashion from its drop-down list widget.

- Avoid mixing JACK MIDI ports with regular audio ports on the 
  Connections and Patchbay widgets; strictly list only audio ports.

- Added 192k sample rate to setup settings drop down list (as kindly 
  reminded by Klaus Zimmermann, thanks).

- Most top-level widgets were missing the normal-widget flag, which 
  were causing some sticky size behavior on some window managers.


0.2.21  2006-10-07  Shrinking on screen real-estate.

- GPL address update.

- All window captions can now be set smaller as tool-widgets. This 
  option takes effect when child windows are kept always on top.

- For the brave of heart, specially the ones brave enough to try 
  with Stephane Letz's jackdmp, a win32 build should be now possible.

- The main window button text labels are now optional (after a kind 
  suggestion by Geoff Beasley, thanks).

- Increse default maximum number of ports setting from 128 to 256.

- Initial freebob backend driver support. Also changed the coreaudio 
  backend driver command line device name/id parameter.

- Closing the main window while not as an active JACK client, nor 
  under a server running state, will just quit the whole application, 
  even though the system-tray icon option is in effect.

- The most relevant transport commands (Rewind, Play and Pause) are 
  now made available on the main window context popup menu.

- The post-shutdown script is now also being called when using the 
  Stop button, whether the jackd server has been started internally or 
  not. The initial hard-coded default is now on and set to `killall 
  jackd` (as a workaround to an old request from Stephane Letz).

- The main window buttons display are now optional. One can choose 
  whether the left, right and/or transport buttons are hidden, making 
  it for a total of six different modes for the main window 
  presentation (after a much simpler suggestion from Paul Davis and 
  Stephane Letz).

- Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED).


0.2.20  2006-03-05  Featuring patchbay socket forwarding.

- Server path setting now accepts custom command line parameters 
  (after a kind suggestion from Jussi Laako).

- The internal XRUN callback notification statistics and reporting 
  has been changed to be a bit less intrusive.

- Patchbay socket dialog gets some more eye-candy as icons have been 
  added to the client and plug selection (combobox) widgets.

- Connections and patchbay lines coloring has changed just slightly 
  :)

- New patchbay socket forwarding feature. Any patchbay socket can 
  now be set to have all its connections replicated (i.e. forwarded) 
  to another one, which will behave actively as a clone of the former. 
  Forward connections are shown by vertical directed colored lines, 
  and can be selected either on socket dialog or from context menu 
  (currently experimental, only applicable to input/writable sockets).

- Optional specification of alternate JACK and/or ALSA installation 
  paths on configure time (after a patch from Lucas Brasilino, 
  thanks).


0.2.19a  2005-11-28  MIDI aliases are back in town.

- ALSA sequencer client/port name aliases are functional again; all 
  actual MIDI sequencer client/port numerical identifier prefixes are 
  also back in business.


0.2.19  2005-11-19  MRU patchbay selection, Mac OS X and other fixes.

- Connections widget views are now properly refreshed after renaming 
  client/ports (aliases).

- Disabled system tray and ALSA sequencer support on configure time, 
  whenever building for MacOSX as default.

- Fixed the major issues with selecting an audio interface on Mac 
  OSX; the button the right of the interface combo is now much better 
  looking than it was before; input/output channel counts are also 
  updated automatically now (thanks to Jesse Chappell for the patch).

- Prevent the setting of the coreaudio device id on the jackd 
  command line (-n) whenever the default interface is being selected.

- The connections and patchbay windows are now allowed to have a 
  wider connection lines frame panel; splitter width sizes are now 
  persistent across application sessions (thanks to Filipe Tomas for 
  the hint).

- Activation toggling feedback on the patchbay widget has been 
  fixed; additionally and as found convenient, the most recently used 
  patchbay definitions can now be loaded immediately by selecting from 
a drop-down list widget, which replaces the old static patchbay name 
  status text, and adds a lil'icon too :)

- All widget captions changed to include proper application title 
  prefix.

- Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date; sample 
  SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and generated at 
  configure time.

- The current selected device is now shown with a checkmark on the 
  device selection menu(s), while on the settings dialog.

- Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of registering 
  the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal to quit() slot, just to 
  let the -geometry command line argument have some effect on X11.


0.2.18  2005-07-18  The mantra of bugfixes stays on.

- A freezing and endless loop condition on the patchbay socket item 
  duplication (copy) has been fixed.

- Fixed output disability when messages limit option is turned off 
  (thanks again to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this one).


0.2.17  2005-06-17  Systemic I/O Latency settings are in.

- Systemic I/O Latency settings are now featured for the alsa, oss 
  and coreaudio backends, letting you specify the known latency of 
  external hardware for client aware compensation purposes (thanks to 
  Wolfgang Woehl, for the reminder).

- Update on last backstage changes to the coreaudio backend options 
  (due to Stephane Letz. Thanks).


0.2.16  2005-06-13  OSS device name selection and Mac OS X breakthrough.

- ALSA sequencer client/port name changes are now properly detected 
  on the MIDI connections widget (as noted by Chris Cannam. Thanks).

- Long overdue transport buttons (rewind, backward and forward) 
  finally landed onto the main control window, at last :).

- Duplication (copy) of patchbay socket items was added.

- Do not ever try to start the JACK server if there's one already 
  found running, on which case the client-only mode of operation is 
  then activated (as kindly suggested by Orm Finnendahl, thanks).

- After several Mac OS X user requests, ALSA/MIDI sequencer support 
  is now an option, otherwise detected at configure time and 
  conditionally compiled in if, and only if, ALSA is found available 
  (which has been a primordial assumption on Linux systems:). Ah, and 
  that just makes for the blind inclusion of another backend driver 
  option: coreaudio.

- Actual OSS device selection menu now featured on setup dialog; 
  these adds to the device selection button menus for the OSS driver 
  settings.

- Delayed geometry setup of windows upon startup was added as an 
  optional workaround to subtle problems due to window decoration 
  information not being available at window creation time on some 
  window managers (as patch proposed by Dirk Jagdmann. Thanks).

- Fixed some minor but rather old bug that was quitting the 
  application abruptly, when one switches off the system tray icon 
  while the main application widget is hidden.

- Cancel is now an option when creating a new patchbay definition.

- Context menus are finally littered with icons.

- Minor configure and Makefile install fixes, as Debian and Mac OS X 
  specialties. Also, install does the right thing with target file 
  modes (thanks to Matt Flax and Ebrahim Mayat, for pointing these 
  out).


0.2.15a  2005-02-09  Return of the paranoid.

- Regression from 0.2.13, of the not so stupid pseudo-mutex guards 
  on the connections management framework, after fixing some crash 
  reports from Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano and Dave Phillips 
  (thanks!); it pays to be such a paranoid after all :).


0.2.15  2005-02-06  Client/port names aliasing and other minors.

- JACK/ALSA client and port name aliasing (renaming) is now an 
  optional feature for the connections window; all client/port
  aliases are saved on a per preset basis (as proposed for
  Lionstracs' Mediastation).

- Server state now shown (back gain) on the system tray icon 
  tooltip; speaking of which, tooltips are now also featured on 
  connections, status and patchbay windows.

- New actual hardware device selection menu featured on setup 
  dialog; these new button menus are only available for the ALSA 
  driver settings.

- Server path factory default to jackd instead of jackstart; preset 
  setup button icons are back.

- Fixed rare connection port item removal/disconnection dangling 
  pointer bug.


0.2.14  2005-01-23  More progressive optimizations.

- Put a limit on XRUN callback messages and statistics report rate, 
  preventing the potential hosing of the GUI due to a XRUN cascade 
  storm. The maximum reasonable report rate has been fixed to be one 
  XRUN callback occurrence per second.

- Set to ignore the SIGPIPE ("Broken pipe") signal, where available, 
  as the default handler is usually fatal when a JACK client is 
  zombified abruptly.

- All conection view items are now sorted in natural case 
  insensitive order, not just as audio port names as was before.

- Got rid of those nonsense paranoid and rather stupid pseudo-mutex 
  guards on the connections management framework and event 
  notifications (nuff said :).

- Optional confirmation warning on audio server shutdown, if there's 
  some audio clients still active and connected (as suggested by Sampo 
  Savolainen).

- Check for <jack/statistics.h> on configure time (as of JACK 0.99.42+ CVS).

- "Unlock memory" server setup option was added, allowing the 
  release of memory used by common toolkit libraries (GTK+, Qt, FLTK, 
  Wine) that were being superfluously locked on every GUI JACK client; 
  number of periods has now the minimum allowed value of 2; server 
  start delay widget converted to spinbox; setup dialog layout slighly 
  changed.

- Removed stand-alone usx2y driver support. Since JACK 0.99.41+ CVS, 
  the special "rawusb" support on the Tascam US-122/224/428 USB 
  Audio/MIDI interface controllers have been merged and properly 
  integrated into the regular alsa backend driver. Being still 
  experimental, this special mode of operation is now triggered only 
  when "hw:N,2" is specified as the alsa device name (N = soundcard 
  index of snd-usb-usx2y module).

- Messages window limit is now enforced only when the line count 
  exceeds in one third the user configured line count maximum; if Qt 
  3.2.0+ is in use, the QTextView widget is otherwise set to the 
  optimized Qt::LogText format.

- XRUN status items are kept double-dashed if none has been 
  detected.


0.2.13  2004-11-21  Retouches and minor optimizations.

- Main window is now properly minimized instead of simply hidden 
  when the system tray icon is not available nor opted in (as 
  suggested by Florian Schmidt).

- Some informational status items are now updated 10 times less 
  frequently (e.g. CPU Load, Sample Rate, Buffer Size, Realtime Mode, 
  etc.), lowering the CPU burden of most probably redundant status 
  updates.

- XRUN detection and statistics are being conditionally included if 
  jack_get_xrun_delayed_usecs() is available (as of JACK 0.99.7+ CVS).

- Fixed ancient bug on client shutdown event handling, which was 
  invoking the xrun notification handler by mistake.

- Support for maximum scheduling delay status added; this status 
  relies on jack_get_max_delayed_usecs() function availability at 
  configure time, depending on a Lee Revell's non-official JACK patch.

- Patchbay Activate button is now a toggle button widget, allowing 
  the deactivation of the current patchbay profile.

- Reset-status icon has been changed to a simple red circle instead 
  of previous one which was much like a power-switch symbol.

- Preset selection has been added to the context menu.


0.2.12a  2004-10-11  Audio connections now naturally sorted.

- Client port list on audio connections are now hopefully fixed for 
  good; the sort comparison function now takes full natural order into 
  account.


0.2.12  2004-10-08  Larger icons and font option on connections/patchbay.

- Fixed some old and slow memory-leak due to redundand and 
  repetitive call to jack_port_by_name() (discovered and solved, 
  thanks to Jesse Chappell); some other free() and configure fixes 
  were also applied.

- Shiny display effect toggling has immediate feedback on setup 
  dialog.

- Added new usx2y driver support.

- New scaled connections/patchbay icons were added; meanwhile, all 
  inline XPM icons were removed and brainlessly converted to PNG 
  format.

- New setup options as for the connections/patchbay view 
  apprearence: larger icon sizes and font selection are now possible, 
  to better ease manipulation on a touchscreen (feature requested for 
  Lionstracs' Mediastation).

- Connection line width follows icon size in discrete proportion.

- "Other" setup options moved to a new dialog tab, "Misc"; new 
  extreme item values, 32 and 16 frames, added to the drop-down list 
  of the Frames/Buffer setting (as suggested by Mark Knetch).


0.2.11  2004-09-10  Shiny display now optional and other fixes.

- Fixed Input/Output channels settings, being now either enabled 
  when the ALSA driver is selected for Capture/Playback only.

- Shiny display effect: after some conservative user complaints this 
  pure cosmetic feature is now made optional ;)


0.2.10  2004-09-04  Shiny display and curved connections.

- New pre-shutdown script setup option, allowing to specify a 
  shell-script to be run before the JACK server daemon is 
  shutted-down. This overrides any previous shutdown script setting, 
  which should be now moved onto the existing post-shutdown script 
  option, as to keep old procedural behaviour.

- Avoid stopping JACK prematurely with QProcess::kill() (oneliner 
  fix); stopping JACK will now take a little bit longer, but hopefully 
  will take the time to cleanup properly (thanks to Kjetil 
  Matheussen).

- ALSA driver Duplex mode accepts alternate Input or Output device 
  name.

- Context menu reset option is now always enabled (yet another 
  suggestion from Sampo Savolainen).

- Main display background gets shinny effect; adjusted system tray 
  background palette color mode.

- Priority and setup control is now a spinbox ranging from 0..89 (as 
  suggested by Florian Schmidt). Same for Periods/Buffer.

- Patchbay connection lines are now drawn correctly when items are 
  scrolled out of view. Additionally, the connection lines can now be 
  optionally drawn as bezier spline curves (big thanks to Wilfried 
  Huss).


0.2.9  2004-07-04  Sloppy boy fixes and minor featuritis.

- Patchbay socket dialog client and plug list option items are now 
  properly escaped as regular expressions.

- JACK callbacks are now internally mapped to QCustomeEvent's 
  instead of using the traditional pipe notifications.
  
- The system tray popup menu is now featured as a context menu on 
  the main application window too.

- The reset status option is now included in the system tray popup 
  menu.

- Server stop command button now enabled during client startup 
  interval; this makes it possible to stop the server just in case
  the client can't be activated for any reason.

- Top level sub-windows are now always raised and set with active 
  focus when shown to visibility.


0.2.8  2004-04-30  System tray icon and menu option.

- New option for system tray icon and menu, which is known to be 
  effective on KDE enabled desktops; support for freedesktop.org's 
  system tray protocol specification has been included so this maybe 
  also effective on Gnome2.

- Capture or Playback-only optional alternate device interface name 
  may now be specified for the ALSA audio driver server settings.

- Maximum number of ports setting was added to server setup.

- The dash (-) is now a legal character for preset names.


0.2.7b  2004-04-05  OSS driver setup fix.

- OSS driver halfduplex setup operation is now fixed, thanks to 
  Jussi Laako.


0.2.7a  2004-04-05  Compilation fix for Qt 3.1.

- QSplitter::setChildrenCollapsible call is now conditionally 
  compiled, applied only on Qt 3.2+.


0.2.7  2004-04-04  User-interface refinements and OSS driver support.

- Connections and patchbay windows horizontal layout are now user 
  configurable via splitter widgets.

- Refresh on connections window now take effect on both tabs, Audio 
  (JACK) and MIDI (ALSA).

- OSS driver support and no-mlock option added to server settings, 
  setup dialog (as of JACK 0.95.7+).

- Temporary server configuration option added, applicable to the 
  auto-start server feature on client applications, whether the
  server shall exit once all clients are closed.

- Server mode (RT) status display added.

- Warning messages are now prompted to the user when there are any 
  pending changes not saved nor applied while on the setup dialog.

- Translation support for the default preset name "(default)".

- Messages window pops up whenever a critical error message is 
  issued.


0.2.6  2004-02-29  More work in progress.

- Message window line limit is now a configurable option on setup, 
  as is whether the command-line local configuration file gets saved 
  at all; the first argument of the command-line configuration is 
  stuffed to be the executable server command absolute path, when 
  possible. 

- Warning message issued if ALSA sequencer is not available on 
  startup; also if server settings are changed while client is 
  currently active.

- Server autostart magic is locally disabled by forcing the 
  environment variable JACK_NO_START_SERVER at startup; with any luck 
  this will maintain qjackctl's behaviour whether the JACK server is 
  already started or not.

- Makefile.cvs makes its late entrance on the build toolset.


0.2.5  2004-02-16  Server survival option and command-line wrapper feature.

- New option on application exit for leaving the JACK server daemon 
  running, surviving the parent process; the confirmation prompt on 
  application close now features a "Terminate", "Leave" and "Cancel" 
  button options.

- New command-line wrapper feature for JACK client applications, 
  thus giving a convenient head start for the JACK audio server as 
  needed (as suggested by Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano, of Planet 
  CCRMA fame).

- Messages, Status, Connections and Patchbay pop-up windows are not 
  hinted as dialogs anymore and thus are not centered relative to 
  parent main window which has become a strict Qt dialog widget 
  behaviour (as of Qt 3.3+).

- Patchbay window content changes are now properly updated, without 
  the need for a later manual refresh to redraw stalled connection 
  lines.

- The snapshot option for creating a new patchbay definition from 
  current actual connections now takes client and port names as 
  regular expressions and smart enough when regarding more than two 
  contiguous decimal digits :)

- Patchbay socket list view ordering is now properly preserved; 
  socket dialog gets plug list handling ehancements; active patchbay 
  gets reloaded when commited and saved to file; connections redraw
  on socket removal has been fixed.

- Server literal command-line is now saved into local configuration 
  file (~/.jackdrc) for convenience of future auto-start client 
  applications.

- New setup option on whether all child windows are kept on top of 
  the main window, or otherwise floating with probable taskbar entries 
  of their own.

- Setup changes that are only effective next time the program is run 
  gets an informational message box shown to the user.


0.2.4  2004-02-01  Exclusive patchbay sockets.

- Patchbay definitions may now be configured with exclusive sockets; 
  this way, only one defined connection is allowed as soon as it's 
  available, being all others immediatelly disconnected whenever 
  attempted.

- On the connections view, current connected client ports are now 
  slightly highlighted (blue) whenever a client or port is selected on 
  the opposite column (as suggested by Lawrie Abbott).

- Connections and patchbay drag and drop feature is now bilateral; 
  you can now drag and drop an item from right to left to establish 
  the connection.


0.2.3a  2004-01-19  Time format combo-box tooltip fix.

- A qt-designer copy-paste leftover has been fixed; sloppy boy I am 
  ;)


0.2.3  2004-01-19  Tenths, hundredths, milliseconds, whatever.

- Custom time format setup for all elapsed times, allowing the 
  display of tenths, hundredths or even milliseconds instead of just 
  hundredths of second for transport time code.


0.2.2  2004-01-16  Hundredths are back.

- Transport time is now shown with hundredths of second 
  (hh:mm:ss.dd), as it was once before but not constant zero.

- Client start delay now configurable on setup; this may be of help 
  for slow machines or unusual long server driver startups (e.g. 
  portaudio).

- Client-only mode restart has been fixed.

- Messages color retouching.

- Popup menus memory leak fixed.


0.2.1  2003-12-29  The fix of fixes.

- Fixed jackstart/jackd command line parameter argument 
  concatenation.

- Front panel status display font can now be customized.

- Some connection graph changes were being silently missed, now 
  fixed.

- Messages window fallback fix; stdout handling has been retouched 
  to be more line buffer oriented.


0.2.0  2003-12-12  ALSA sequencer patchbay entrance.

- ALSA sequencer subscription patchbay feature, complementing 
  current audio service with a MIDI application connection graph, 
  gracefuly included on the same front-end.

- Current preset name is shown on main window caption title. New 
  button and form icons. Messages window blankness rendering fix.

- Immediate server startup option was made persistent and therefore 
  remembered across sessions.

- Standard output/error stream capture setup option.


0.1.3  2003-11-26  Server settings profile/preset feature.

- Server setup settings can now be profiled, named and saved as 
  presets. Command line preset name option and scripting argument 
  meta-symbols are also featured for convenience (kindly suggested by 
  Sampo Savolainen).

- New configure time argument debugging support (--enable-debug).


0.1.2  2003-11-16  More work in progress.

- Qmake project file (qjackctl.pro) now generated by configure 
  (autoconf), introducing the explicit binding support to libqt-mt 
  (multi-thread).

- Main window is not hinted as a dialog anymore, giving room to the 
  minimize button on some other window managers; application close 
  confirm warning is now an option.

- Removed deprecated settings options: temporary directory and ASIO 
  mode; new available settings for the ALSA driver: force 16bit 
  format, maximum input channels and output channels (as of JACK 
0.90.x).

- Transport time display looses static hundredth seconds decimal 
  digits.


0.1.1a  2003-11-01  Whatever happened to OK button icons.

- Restored missing OK button icons.


0.1.1  2003-10-29  Minor feature enhancements and bugfixes.

- Main window display items are now made fixed in width, at least 
  those more prone to change frequently and thus caused some display 
  jitter.

- Messages, status, connections and patchbay module windows are now 
  reopened automagicaly on startup as they were on previous session.

- New patchbay definition snapshot option from current actual 
  connections; current active patchbay filename status indication on 
  title.

- New icons patchbay editor window and socket dialogs; own 
  stdout/stdin is now properly captured and shown on messages log 
  window.

- Fixed an obvious patchbay connection scan freezing bug; default 
  .xml file extension enforcement on save.


0.1.0  2003-10-22  Major user interface redesign.

- Main application window complete redesign, now more like a 
  multimedia/LCD control panel -- old main window dialog tabs are now 
  splitted in separate pop-up windows/dialogs; big time display 
  options. In other words, this sums up to a nice complete application 
  rewrite.

- Deprecated options for forcing aRTs and jackd daemons are no 
  longer available; this functionality can be officially superceded
  by the more generic startup/shutdown script options.

- Seamless support for externally started JACK server, providing a 
  client-only mode of operation; if the JACK daemon is already 
  started, qjackctl enters in client detached mode automagically.

- Messages window font is configurable and saved across sessions (by 
  Jack O'Quin's humble request). Some colorization has been introduced 
  on some event messages.

- Preliminary patchbay persistence feature is under way. A patchbay 
  definition editor is already included, following an alternative 
  socket-plug patchbay model that aliases and is a direct map to the 
  client-port JACK connections model. The patchbay definitions are 
  stored as text/xml files.

- New post-startup script option; immediate JACK server startup 
  command line option (as suggested by Kasper Souren).


0.0.9a  2003-10-03  Tiny bugfixes.

- Startup/shutdown script options now correctly saved and restored.

- Dummy driver wait parameter is now properly set on startup.

- Confirmation warning on disconnecting all ports (as suggested by 
  Robert Jonsson).


0.0.9  2003-09-25  Work in progress.

- New connection port item pixmaps that distinguishes physical from 
  logical ports.

- History of most recently used values gets saved for some settings 
  and options comboboxes widgets.

- New startup and shutdown script options, intended to supersede the 
  mess of forcing artsd and jackd itself, in a near future ;) this 
  way, one can also include the operation of the LADCCA daemon 
  (following a suggestion from Kasper Souren).

- Connections command buttons are now shortly disabled after 
  clicking, avoiding accidental duplicated connections.


0.0.8  2003-09-19  Preliminary transport and buffer size status control.

- Transport status and control introduced (requires JACK 0.80.0+);

- Statistics tab renamed to Status, where the transport state info 
  and simple play/pause control buttons are now placed;

- Buffer size status is yet another item on the list view.


0.0.7  2003-09-15  Minor bugfixes.

- Inverse alphabetic ordering fixed on Connections port listing.

- Verbose option added; messages view font size fix; about Qt 
  dialog; logo pixmap retouched.

- Configure script now checks for Qt 3.1.1 or greater.


0.0.6  2003-09-12  Drag-n-drop and more feature enhancements and bugfixes.

- Patchbay connection user interface handling has been fairly 
  rewritten; (features new bugs while fixing old ones ;-)

- Reset XRUN statistics button added; reset time recorded on 
  statistics; calculated latency is now shown on settings; ASIO mode 
  disables Periods/Buffer setting (all suggestions by Lawrie Abbott).

- Context popup menu introduced for port connection handling; 
  includes new command for disconnecting all currently connected 
  ports.

- Closing the application while JACK is running, is now presented 
  with a warning confirmation message (preventing accidental Esc key 
  press? :).

- Patchbay port lists ordering are now more numerical-friendly than 
  ever, taking account for sub-numbering port names (following yet 
  another suggestion from Lawrie).

- Connection drag-and-drop is now featured after many, many 
  requests.

- Corrected the configure script to properly recognize Qt 3.0.1 or 
  greater.


0.0.5  2003-09-05  Minor feature enhancements and bugfixes.

- Internationalization support added; future qjackctl_${LANG}.qm 
  translation files are located on ${prefix}/share/locale .

- New dummy and portaudio driver support (as of JACK release 
0.80.0+).

- A couple of silent memory leak bugs have been corrected.


0.0.4  2003-08-29  Minor changes and bugfixes.

- The patchbay port lists are now sorted in a more numerical 
  friendly manner (as suggested by Steve Harris); the sort code has 
  been "borrowed" from qjackconnect, yet again.

- Patchbay port connection lines are now always visible, even if 
  their respective connected port items aren't.

- Multiple simultaneous port connections can now be handled when a 
  client application item is selected for connection/disconnection 
  (again, suggested by Steve Harris), replicating and extending 
  qjackconnect's similar behaviour.

- An auto-refresh option for the patchbay connections is now 
  available, for those cases when client code just can't handle 
  properly some callbacks.

- Window positioning and sizing is now almost persistent across 
  sessions; as before, position is saved for the minimal view mode; 
  but now, the details dialog view mode gets its position and size 
  independantly saved also.


0.0.3  2003-08-07  Integrated visual patchbay.

- A patchbay for jack port connections is now integrated, much like 
  the greatest Mathias Nagorni's qjackconnect 
  (http://www.suse.de/~mana/jack.html).


0.0.2  2003-08-02  Client code features introduced.

- JACK library and header files are checked on configure.

- Server CPU load, sample rate and time elapsed since last XRUN 
  detected, are now displayed on statistics.


0.0.1  2003-07-26  Initial release.
