In working on my trumpet duet arrangement to update it, I noticed some noteworthy usability issues.
* There were lots of fake breath marks that were just text events with a " ," in them. These were difficult to select for removal. I had to draw the selection box way the hell to the upper left of the visible notation object to get it in the selection. * The new breath mark symbols are difficult to place, because these are something that should normally come in between notes, instead of on note boundaries. I think the old text event version had the same problem, which was why I set it up as " ,", to give it some padding. This probably means all the new breath marks I inserted are falling on the wrong side of the line. It may do to just tweak the horizontal layout for breath marks to make them appear a little further to the right than where they actually exist * The usual selection modifier keys aren't hooked up, or aren't working. I can never remember which keys these actually are. Shift+Click, Ctrl+Click, whatever. You should be able to pick out a selection bit by bit, and toggle the selected state of notation elements by re-selecting the same element successive times. That's probably just a moving project, but I found it quite irritating. * I noticed all manner of random little bitchy layout problems. Slurs were never our finest hour, but now they're all over the place. Dot placement sucks too. Other things, surely. We already had a lot of layout problems, and now it's all much worse than ever. Blah. Notation layout code is such a bitch to get right. * Crashes, crashes, crashes. Make friends with the save button, because if you did something and it didn't cause a crash, you should save your progress. -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
