[Rosegarden-devel] First impressions

2008-04-21 Thread Vladimir Savic
This one goes to Michael, I think... Since you're in charge of documentation, I'd like to open discussion about what you call Making noise by default. Nowdays the situation has improved in many ways regarding MIDI on linux. My expectation was that KDE4 developers would eventually make midi sounds

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] First impressions

2008-04-21 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On Monday 21 April 2008, Vladimir Savic wrote: We have wiki now. Maybe we could make general guidelines on the easiest way of setting up various distribution to play something. Either the wiki, or add a new mini-tutorial to the series I started during this release cycle. Arguments for a wiki

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Testing rosegarden 1.7.0.pre2

2008-04-21 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
OMG! My handwriting to the T! I must have been sleepwalking, it wasn't me, it was just someone who looked like me, honest! I did that with a mouse. No pen and tablet, no scanner. I think it turned out impressively well under the circumstances. :) -- D. Michael McIntyre

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] 1.7.0 Translation

2008-04-21 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
I finished the Spanish translation, though it's probably rough, and maybe even total gibberish to a native speaker. Nobody else was doing it. We can't keep a Spanish translator around here. We've had updates for Italian (Alessandro) and French (Yves.) Unfortunately, Jan began work on the

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] First impressions

2008-04-21 Thread Vladimir Savic
D. Michael McIntyre wrote: On Monday 21 April 2008, Vladimir Savic wrote: We have wiki now. Maybe we could make general guidelines on the easiest way of setting up various distribution to play something. Either the wiki, or add a new mini-tutorial to the series I started during this

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] First impressions

2008-04-21 Thread Shelagh Manton
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:39:29 +0200 Vladimir Savic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one goes to Michael, I think... Since you're in charge of documentation, I'd like to open discussion about what you call Making noise by default. Nowdays the situation has improved in many ways regarding MIDI on

[Rosegarden-devel] Wiki (was: Re: First impressions)

2008-04-21 Thread Arnout Engelen
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 09:52:37AM -0400, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: On Monday 21 April 2008, Vladimir Savic wrote: We have wiki now. Arguments for a wiki usually involve the idea that other people can edit and add to it. In practice, the only way anybody can write to our wiki is if we

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Testing rosegarden 1.7.0.pre2

2008-04-21 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On Monday 21 April 2008, Shelagh Manton wrote: I did that without any difference to the big button I hate problems like this, where someone out there can repeat them all day, and I can't get them to happen. They're almost impossible to figure out. Maybe this might be related to the build

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Testing rosegarden 1.7.0.pre2

2008-04-21 Thread Shelagh Manton
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:51:19 -0400 D. Michael McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 21 April 2008, Shelagh Manton wrote: I did that without any difference to the big button I hate problems like this, where someone out there can repeat them all day, and I can't get them to happen.

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] First impressions

2008-04-21 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On Monday 21 April 2008, Shelagh Manton wrote: Timidity is the least intrusive option. Well, you have a point. His thinking was that for people who have one, the asfxload route is the best thing to try first. It is, and I can agree with that, but on second thought, let's look at the first

[Rosegarden-devel] Going through the manual

2008-04-21 Thread Shelagh Manton
You guys may regret this. (giving me the go-ahead to look at the manual that is) I have been looking at the manual, going through and changing Rosegarden to rosegarden; as suggested and hopefully improving style a bit. But I've also been trying some of the things in the manual as I've gone

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Going through the manual

2008-04-21 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On Tuesday 22 April 2008, Shelagh Manton wrote: Pitch split by range for piano parts. Oh how I've wanted this! It has existed for years. shows the lower clef only. I was hoping that it would behave something like selecting two tracks and getting to see both in the notation editor. For this

[Rosegarden-devel] Print preview problems?

2008-04-21 Thread Shelagh Manton
Today I can't reproduce the error, but I suspect it might be due to not checking all the options on the lilypond export page. I might not have marked the export all tracks or maybe only the un-muted tracks (with no un-muted tracks) So cross that one off the potential list. Shelagh --

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Going through the manual

2008-04-21 Thread Shelagh Manton
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:43:25 -0400 D. Michael McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 22 April 2008, Shelagh Manton wrote: Pitch split by range for piano parts. Oh how I've wanted this! It has existed for years. shows the lower clef only. I was hoping that it would behave