nick wrote: > Why are all the (major) sequencer projects built on Qt/KDE? i count > MuSE, Rosegarden and Anthem all on QT. Personally i'd much rather a GTK > sequencer, i'm sure others would like the choice too.
For Rosegarden it's because we enjoy using Qt - it's stable and it's mature and it's easy to extend. It's well documented and it lets us quickly prototype ideas and it doesn't bite us in the ass all the time. This isn't to mean we haven't considered other options. Indeed RG4 _was_ going to be a gtk app. Guillaume (http://www.telegraph-road.org) used to develop gtkmm - part of the intention being to eventually use it for Rosegarden. In the end he gave up: "I got involved in gtkmm because of Rosegarden : we had choosen it to write our GUI. [..] In retrospect, my only regret is not to have done it earlier, as Qt/KDE has quickly proven to be an excellent C++ development framework, way superior to what gtkmm/gnomemm is or could ever be." Both Chris and Guillaume were really pulling for gtk. It just never came off. When the decision was made to move to KDE/Qt I trusted their judgement as I was just glad to being doing anything that wasn't Xt/Xaw! I've got to say that we've never looked back. Perhaps now the situation has changed somewhat but if we'd have waited around then we'd be behind the game now. Is that kind of tradeoff worth it? B -- http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/rosegarden http://www.bownie.com
