On Monday 03 Nov 2003 4:52 pm, Guillaume Laurent wrote: > On Monday 03 November 2003 17:42, Chris Cannam wrote: > > I'm currently considering whether it's worth tying these together > > into a single MIDI device management dialog > > Yeah, sure, but do we aim at stabilizing things for an upcoming > release, or keep fiddling with the features 'til Hell freezes over > ?
Was that a rhetorical question? I'm suggesting doing both. Most of this is not truly about features; these dialogs already exist, they just have a slightly different organisation. The only exception is the controller dialog, which is not finished yet anyway. And the device dialog has a few serious bugs left too. The aim is to take what we have and make it work in a more intuitive way. I don't know about you, but while things like simply not crashing are obviously concerns for the release for me, I'm also very concerned about some of the bits of GUI we've ended up with that aren't easy to use or particularly comprehensible. I was trying to demo this thing to my sister yesterday, and it was rather mortifying how much work I had to go through just to record from a keyboard while a metronome played and then play back the result (on a synthesised oboe, per her request). Think about what you have to do if the defaults come out wrong: go to the MIDI device dialog to set up a connection to the synth, then the MIDI bank dialog (not available from the above) to configure the synth as GM so you can select the oboe, then the metronome dialog (not available from either of the above) to make sure the metronome uses the right device, then the main configuration dialog (not available from any of the above -- and when you get there, choose a different page, then a different pane to get to the right option) to configure the record device, and then go back to the main window and select the instrument for your track. It Doesn't Just Work (tm). I realise that once it's configured, it (much of the time) stays that way. That's why I don't particularly want to piss about with the way it works underneath. Anyway, just a proposal. I'm not doing any more work on it right now. Chris ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
