I am using Xubuntu 10.04 LTS and compiling and installing ardour 2.8.11 works perfectly. I only have one small “cosmetic” problem: no starter for ardour is created automatically in the multimedia menu, so I create one by myself using usr/locl/bin/ardour2.
Does someone have an idea which dependency is missing for autocreating a starter? My thanks in advance and my dependency list for compiling ardour (I yet have installed more audio related libs, because I compile a lot of other audio progs):
thank you for the hint. It didn’t help - I use the GTK=yes option anyway.
Maybe it is a xfce/Xubuntu specific problem. Please don’t bother anymore (installing from ppa’s generates the starter, but for better performance and stability I prefer to compile).
You will have better stability if self compiled and you were able to do it.
I am totally against PPA or repos especially for these type of things.
EDIT:
Then I didn’t read your first post well before my whole biblic explanation, and noticed you were able to create your own starter, so what is the main problem?
When I compile and install it doesn’t do it either for me and I’m in Gnome…
That is defintiley not true in my case (and in general too, I think).
Ffado, QJackCtl, QTractor, QSynth, Calf, Rakarrack, Swami, Kluppe, Audacity, Abiword, Gnumeric, JackMixer, QMidiCtl, Muse, VMPK, … do create a starter automatically when being self-compiled.
In the case of Ffado, I had to install some gtk-related libs additionally to have its starter installed automatically, that’s why I thought some libs are missing (especially concerning gtk-stuff there are hundreds of possibilities).
But, as mentioned in my first post, it’s just a cosmetic problem. So, let’s close this topic.
There is a flag when building that may do what you want. I think it is --freedesktop, but check the --help for more details, that may only associate session files with the app itself.