On Saturday, December 31, 2011, [email protected] wrote: > by holding down shift. Anyway, I assume this functionality is > unfinished and will be fixed in a later version.
The rulers are unfinished, and pretty much orphaned. There are still some pretty major problems with selections, in particular. Users were supposed to be able to cut/copy/paste and other fun stuff on the rulers, and mix ruler selections with matrix/notation selections, but none of that ever quite worked right. The guy who was working on this hasn't been with us for some time now, and nobody really took over the job of finishing the rulers up. Surprisingly, the new Rosegarden has been out there in the world for just under two years now, and very little has ever been said about any of this. > It seems like Rosegarden has been going through certain changes > and works which still aren't finished, which would explain the rough > edges that I've noticed in it. When we ported Rosegarden to Qt 4, we had to rewrite a considerable number of things from scratch. We had a lot of energy at the time, a big team, and ambitious plans for building on all sorts of ideas. Shortly after that, Rosegarden basically started to wind down to an idle. Developers got caught up with other things, or were forced by their employers to leave the project. Our team lost more members (or at least developer hours) than it picked up, and I got tied up with one thing after another all last year. I expect Rosegarden is probably just going to go trickling along in this fashion indefinitely. Maybe somebody will turn an eye toward polishing up the rulers, and maybe not. It's impossible to guess what might happen, but it's also safe to say there are no longer any "staff programmers" around here who undertake things just because they're on some big TODO list. More than ever, work is getting done by people who are directly motivated by some personal incentive to undertake it, and apparently none of us really use the rulers much. I know if I did, I'd never be able to tolerate them in their current state for very long. A pity then, perhaps, that I have no real use for them. I haven't even composed anything since 2008. Or built anything. Or written anything. Or painted, or photographed, or pretty much any of the things that used to occupy so much of my time. I've mostly just been trying to stay afloat in this crappy economy. I can afford subsistence, but not much in the way of luxury. Well, welcome to the club, right? -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
