dc wrote:
dhbailey écrit:
So out of kindness, add your voices to others' feature requests, and
remember that MakeMusic does not monitor this list officially so any
suggestions/complaints/bugs mentioned here stay here and if we want
MakeMusic to act on anything we have to report it to MakeMusic
officially through their web-site.
I don't think it's wise to request any new features until the most basic
things - such as hyphenation - are broken. I even think we should all
write to MM and request that they add NO NEW FEATURES to the next
Finale, but simply fix all the bugs.
That's just it, whether it's bug fixes, new features or improvements to
existing features, we need to lobby MakeMusic.
And then there's the old "you need that fixed but I need this new
feature added" quandary. I think that trying to restrict MakeMusic from
adding new features is like trying to get Microsoft to quit acting like
a monopoly -- it just ain't gonna happen.
But you are welcome to invite people to lobby MakeMusic with just that
point of view -- no new features until the current bugs are fixed.
Especially the bugs which didn't used to be bugs (hyphenation actually
worked at one point, as did enharmonic flipping in speedy entry).
There will always be new features added -- it's part of marketing. They
sure as heck aren't going to release a version which the only slogan
Marketing can come up with is "It's finally Fixed! Read all about it,
no bugs at all!" So we can either try to direct the new features
through lobbying them via tech support or we can sit back and wait for
the much satirized "ThoughtNotator(tm)" becomes a reality and a big
marketing hype.
But in the meantime be relentless in hounding them, and get others to
hound them, to fix the bugs which annoy you. And be willing to do the
same for the bugs which annoy others.
--
David H. Bailey
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