about the garden

I use rosegarden because I don't really have a choice. I must stay in Linux, because that's the only useable OS I have found, and also what my laptop supports best.

Luckily, Rosegarden works reliably, 99% of the time.

The problem is, HOW does it work? It works counter-intuitively and mostly prevents me from actually composing. What I mean is:

* to even get to the staffs, I have to create a so-called segment. And I have to decide how many measures I want. What happens when I run out of bars? New notes overlap old ones. Who decided this was a good idea? How hard would it be to automatically extend the current segment...?

* it's next to impossible to pick the "right" note using the mouse. It's also hard to change durations. Switching from a quarter note to an eighth should not be a major accomplishment, it should be a simple task.

It's possible that rosegarden has keybd shortcuts for these tasks. However, if this is so, they are not DISCOVERABLE shortcuts (as in , you hover the mouse over a symbol and it brings out a tooltip).

There are lots of other problems. The percussion editor doesn't really allow deletion of strokes easily. Even getting the monster (Rosegarden) to run is painful. Cleaning up the KDE crap (the daemons) after it quits is also necessary. But these are less important than the composition problems (to me at least).

I suspect there are many other annoyed users. But given the barrier of entry on a sourceforge list (I've wasted about 15 minutes to create an anonymmous account, because HEY, I don't want to be the guy with a bad attitude on Google when I look for my next employer). you probably do not receive that many complaints.

One thing before I close: I realize Rosegarden is open sores software and all that, but the fact remains that you are (pretty much)
monopolizing the Linux market for composition software, whether you like it or not, and therefore you do have a kind of moral responsibility...

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