Hello Leo,

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:

> On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 10:08:20AM -0500, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> rekado pushed a commit to branch master
>> in repository guix.
>> 
>> commit 3182a1d2f1f63bcc0840bf0c98e54a7037281163
>> Author: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
>> Date:   Sat Nov 18 14:49:29 2017 +0100
>> 
>>     gnu: audacity: Update to 2.2.0.
>>     
>>     *
>> gnu/packages/patches/audacity-build-with-system-portaudio.patch: New
>> file.
>>     * gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Add it.
>>     * gnu/packages/audio.scm (audacity): Update to 2.2.0.
>>     [source]: Add patch to build with system portaudio; add snippet
>> to remove most
>>     bundled libraries.
>>     [inputs]: Replace "gtk+-2" with "gtk+", replace "wxwidgets-gtk2" with
>>     "wxwidgets"; remove "libsbsms"; add "suil" and "portmidi".
>>     [arguments]: Adjust configure flags to avoid using bundled
>> libraries; remove
>>     phase "autoreconf"; add phases "fix-sbsms-check" and
>> "use-upstream-headers".
>
> Is anyone else having problems with this new version of Audacity?
>
> On Debian, the graphical user interface is broken for me (overlapping
> and blank elements), and it crashes when opening a file, with
> "(audacity:21456): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema
> 'org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser' is not installed".

It mostly works for me. I can play music and the overlapping issue can
be fixed by dragging the toolbar. The only unfixable issue is the
missing icon for the closing button. I am running guix on debian testing
(buster).