The latest stable release is the *3.4.0* : How to install it here.
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Subscription date :24 January 2009 Messages :12573
Hello,
I want to introduce to you the new Impulse applet!
What's the Impulse applet?
It's a very useless applet so it's essential!
This is the description:
Did you know that your dock can dance?
If you click on this icon, the dock will dance!
In fact, you will have a graphical equalizer into the dock
It will analyse the signal given by PulseAudio.
It needs libpulse and fftw3 and of course it's an unstable applet.
PS: thanks to Ian Halpern and its Impulse project.
PS²: sorry for this not so good screencast... simply try it by yourself! (you can use our Weekly ppa or by compiling the source files from our BZR repository)
PS³: music by Professor Kliq (Plastic & Flashing Lights) available on Jamendo: http://www.jamendo.com/track/398210 PS?: it's maybe better to directly watch this webm video file: http://db.tt/YWSNWzS
Subscription date :24 January 2009 Messages :12573
But can you uncomment all "cd_debug" in the _animate_the_dock function of this file: cairo-dock-plug-ins/Impulse/src/applet-impulse.c (and then recompile it with make && sudo make install command)
Subscription date :24 January 2009 Messages :12573
@ Nochka: is it working now?
If you launch the dock from a terminal without any options and then click on the applet, you should see one or two new lines into the terminal => can you post them here?
Subscription date :29 November 2007 Messages :7408
I've just installed the latest revision and try with a new dock -> It worked (but the sensibility needs to be very low). So I restart it with my own dock and decrease the sensibility -> Seems it's working correctly !
Would it be possible to have special effects for this. Because we have to change the animations globally which makes no sense and can we remove the useless icon from the dock ? I want it on all the time
I want something not really obstructive.
PS. i am using it with fire effect best effect which gives my dock a magical style.
Subscription date :29 November 2007 Messages :7408
I understood what happened for me -> The problem is that the sensitivity is not adjust when you decrease or increase the main volume : If I configure impulse to work fine with the volume at 100%, it doesn't work at all if I decrease the volume to 50%.
Is it possible to have an option to automaticaly adjust the sensitivity with the volume ?
Subscription date :29 November 2007 Messages :7408
Yes I know them a bit. They were at the Jazz Festival not so long ago...
They came to the festival of my little town in Vendée 2 years ago ! It was the greatest show !
Well, let's go back to the applet. I think that there are missing some very simple thinks :
- The icon should change when Impulse is active/inactive (ex : The same icon when impulse is active, and another without the notes when inactive ... or with a special color)...
- The sensitivity is quiet strange. Here is what I need to have a correct behaviour :
... I think that it's not normal to have 0.008 -> Should be more 0.5 !
- As mentionned in my previous post, it should be great to have an option to adjust the sensitivity with the volume : With my 0.008 (working if the volume is 100%), when I decrease the volume to 50%, The dock stop dancing !