On Tuesday, May 08, 2012, Richard Bown wrote: > On 8 May 2012, at 22:46, Chris Cannam <[email protected]> wrote: > > But you and I have had a lot of time off from this project, and I > > guess both of us did that because we felt a bit like Michael > > Indeed. It's a soul wrecker this software.
It really is. I think a lot of the key to why can be found in all those messages from people saying ditch this but please save that. Rosegarden does a little bit of everything, and everything it does is important to someone. It strikes me that the result is something like cartoon car Homer Simpson built: http://onscreencars.com/tv/the-homer-the-car-built-for-homer/ I think Rosegarden is a much more elegant example of something that has every kind of whiz bang gizmo and dongle bolted onto it somewhere, but it's a prettier example of the same sort of breed as that car. Everyone can agree that Rosegarden is a ridiculously difficult mess to maintain, but nobody will EVER agree on how to simplify it into something more manageable. Over the years, I have managed to dispose of exactly one extreme fringe feature without anybody ever noticing. (I'm not going to say what it was, or someone will surely notice, and complain.) Rosegarden is actually rather useful for being this crazy hodge podge, and that's the ultimate bitch of it all. Everything Rosegarden does really is useful to someone, and I've used almost all of the features myself at one point or another, and sometimes used most of them within the same project. I don't think it's possible to change the nature of this beast at this point, but this beast sure is a snarly bastard. -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
