On Apr 12, 2008, at 9:30 , D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > I still think you're being a total asshat though. Not because you > got your > sights set on going somewhere else, but because you couldn't stop > yourself > from shitting all over where you've been. That hurts, you know.
Well, otherwise there wouldn't be any reason for me to move, right ? And should I search the list archives to dig up one of your rants ? :-) At some point, I have to take in account that the vast majority of the questions on rg-user or #rosegarden are about sound or setup problems which we have no bearing on, and which haven't improved in years because they can't improve. There will always be dozens of distros packaging whichever version of our software they like, providing a kernel with whatever compile flags they deem fit, and a scattered sound framework which is actually just a bunch of completely independent, badly documented pieces of software which sometimes happen to take one another into account. Bottom line, the answer to most questions is essentially : fix your environment. Bring it into the tiny little fraction of that huge diversity in which we can reasonably be expected to work. Then make sure that all these other programs are started, with the right privileges, and that they are properly connected to one another. Do you really find this reasonable ? I get the same nagging feeling than I had 8 years ago when I was busy endlessly wrapping the GTK/Gnome C APIs, thinking "yeah, it's gonna be really good eventually... NOT". Rosegarden is neither pointless nor useless in itself, it just needs a more hospitable platform. > Sorry. You're being an asshat. I've been more productive musically > since > Rosegarden than at any other period in my life. If you want to talk > about a > totally hopeless music platform, try typing pages and pages of BASIC > code out > of some magazine printed in a crappy illegible font just to get > yourself a > four-voice polyphonic composer program that only partially works. That there are worse situations doesn't mean the current one can't nor shouldn't be improved. -- Guillaume http://telegraph-road.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
