On Friday 11 February 2005 06:00 pm, Vladimir Savic wrote: > > I don't think anyone has ever suggested it before. > > Well, I'm srceaming for that little halpers sooo much. ...ahm.. welcome > back! :-)
The funny thing is I've been right here all along, day after day wondering where the hell everyone went. It just never dawned on me that I might be the one who had inadvertently left the party. > To be honest, rg is one of the best "equiped" apps. There's always that > way or this way to do something, but gui is sometimes very strange in it's > inconsistency (either it's inner editors behaviour or between it and other If you want to get into honing the UI, I think * the entire manage-midi-devices series of dialogs are seriously obnoxious to use. I don't have a complete list of grumbles assembled, but I can put together a long one. That thing needs some attention. * audio management stuff really needs looking at, because of the obnoxious, meaningless filenames, and the number of such you wind up with after a few botched takes. Delete the segment, but you still have stack after stack of these gibberish files lingering around. There are all kinds of things to think about along those lines. > Then I gave it to the friend. Result: my friend (musician) could not > understand why there are so much "hidden" options (like ctrl+0-9 are). > Sometimes they are not in the menus at all! Too many people asks for > explanation of too simple tasks (my oppinion) on this lists. Michael > really did a great job with tutorial - Not sure if this great application > would be the same without it! OTOH, even as many hundreds of hours as I spent working on it, it never answered enough questions for enough people. All of this is just too damn hard for people just starting out. All of it. Not just Rosegarden, but the entire spectrum of audio and MIDI applications for Linux. Rosegarden is hard in part because of the crazy quilt of interrelated projects it depends on to work. > Hope that I was not rude and hard with words! Still, I think that post-1.0 > main job should be better interaction with users! Anyhow, this IS great > sequencer! Actually, I think the main job for 2.0 should be better interaction with the users. The main job for 1.0 should be rounding out the list of must-haves to bring Rosegarden up to par as a true notation editor. There's quite a lot of work to do on that front, and if we start pissing around with picky UI details instead, all of it will likely go undone that much longer. -- Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
