Re: [Rosegarden-user] Printing & staff formatting suggestions

2012-08-28 Thread k-12
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 12:15:54 -0400 David Tisdell wrote: > Rosegarden uses Lilypond for printing. You should be able to print directly > from Rosegarden as long as Lilypond is installed. I use Suse as well. I > seem to remember needng to manually install lilypond with a script because > i had tr

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Printing & staff formatting suggestions

2012-08-28 Thread k-12
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 12:15:54 -0400 David Tisdell wrote: > Rosegarden uses Lilypond for printing. You should be able to print directly > from Rosegarden as long as Lilypond is installed. I use Suse as well. I > seem to remember needng to manually install lilypond with a script because > i had tr

Re: [Rosegarden-user] The future of Linux sure looks bleak...

2012-08-28 Thread jimmy
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012, Jim Cochrane wrote: > As most (probably everyone) on this list knows, the main > transition at > this point is from the "desktop" (GUI on a PC - Windows for > most > people, but also OSX and Linux) to either or both of: > >   - mobile/tablet-based apps, most of which make

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Printing & staff formatting suggestions

2012-08-28 Thread David Tisdell
Rosegarden uses Lilypond for printing. You should be able to print directly from Rosegarden as long as Lilypond is installed. I use Suse as well. I seem to remember needng to manually install lilypond with a script because i had trouble finding an rpm for suse but it wasn't a big deal. Dave On T

[Rosegarden-user] Printing & staff formatting suggestions

2012-08-28 Thread k-12
LillyPond sounds like something really nice, I say sounds like because I haven't been able to print with it yet, or even see a print-preview. I've just installed Musix-2.0, I'm next going to set up the printing on it (wifi net printer). When LillyPond is buggy or missing maybe a simpler other

Re: [Rosegarden-user] The future of Linux sure looks bleak...

2012-08-28 Thread Noel Darlow
Hi > IMO, the IT world is in a major transition period Actually I think we're in a major cloud-bloviation period. Sure it has its place but I expect it to be a parallel option to desktops, not a replacement. It's a kind of IT Lite for those with several lightweight devices who don't really need t

Re: [Rosegarden-user] The future of Linux sure looks bleak...

2012-08-28 Thread Jim Cochrane
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:08:36 -0400 "D. Michael McIntyre" wrote: > I'm writing from GMail in a web browser. I hate using a web browser > for email, and have been using KMail for over 10 years. I love KMail. > > So somewhere after midnight I got the upgrade notification thing from > my running K

Re: [Rosegarden-user] The future of Linux sure looks bleak...

2012-08-28 Thread david
On 08/27/2012 11:13 AM, jimmy wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, "D. Michael > McIntyre" wrote: > >> My computer had been up for almost 18 months before I >> decided to try >> upgrading it. You'd think I would have learned that >> for every stable >> thing in Linux there are 50,000 hopeless train w

Re: [Rosegarden-user] The future of Linux sure looks bleak...

2012-08-28 Thread Mario Moles
Dear Michael I've never used Ubuntu so I can not talk about it! I use ROSA-2012 (Russian version of Mandriva) http://www.rosalab.com/ with kde4.8.4 and the repo MIB http://mib.pianetalinux.org/blog/ which ROSA takes the kernel-nrj (low-latency). I, like you, am a user kmail since it exists! Eve

Re: [Rosegarden-user] The future of Linux sure looks bleak...

2012-08-28 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
I can feel your pain... When I faced upgrade threats for my Ubuntu 10.04 LTS I sensed something had taken the wrong direction with Ubuntu. While Ubuntu was the distro which really helped me to get seriously and permanently into Linux I felt it was taking the wrong decisions at each upgrade. Ubun