[PD] some observations and questions on Pd-ext 0.43.1 beta

Hi folks,

yesterday I tried my Xth Sense system on a student's machine running Ubuntu 11.10 and Pd-ext 0.43.1 from the latest autobuilds.

• Strangely enough, Pd would start with real-time flag at anytime (from a

launcher of from a terminal without any flag). We had to do $ pd-extended -nrt to get rid of the real time. Why this happens?

• is Flatspace being removed from Pd-ext?

I couldn't find it in the extra folder. I needed it for [line3]

• The GUI has a bad responsiveness, nbx are slow, sliders and graphs are

updated every 1 second or similar. Usually it works flawlessly both on Linux 10.04 and older and OSX. Is this being experienced by someone else with the same system?

I would like to understand whether this depends on my software, on the Ubuntu distro, or Pd-ext 0.43.1. We improved Pd GUI performance by replacing Unity with Gnome Classic, but still the GUI was quite unresponsive.

any hint is appreciated. thanks!