Re: [Denemo-devel] Before Denemo 0.8.18

[Richard Shann]

I should say on this topic that the Default commandset has not been
pruned of lots of stuff that will just get in the way of someone
starting out on Denemo. This should be done before release.

Richard

On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 09:43 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 19:42 +0200, Nils Gey wrote:
> > 1) I started Denemo for the first time since recent changes and got
> > "Default / Composer / Arranger". This is not enough description, even
> > for me!
> > I didn't know what to do and what to expect and just choose default
> Hopefully, choosing default is what people will do if they don't have
> any extra knowledge. It would be possible, of course, to put up some
> further documentation here, but mostly those who have never run denemo
> won't want to read stuff, just give denemo a try. (And it will require
> some programming - what is there is a combo box, that does not have a
> place for some extra text).
> 
> What is bad is that you never see this dialog again. You see it before
> you can read the documentation (which you will do once you have played
> around and decided that it does actually work - so much free software
> simply fails to operate out of the box). But once you have tried the
> program it does not reappear to let you try out other configurations.
> 
> The "Command Manager" interface needs an over-haul, but what I can do
> immediately is show this dialog until you have saved your own
> commandset. *BUT* we also need a prominent section in the docs to
> describe the current Default/Composer/Arranger options - something like
> 
> Default: a simple to use set of commands and shortcuts, [it should
> present relatively uncluttered menus, no explicit insertion of LilyPond,
> no implicit operations on the selection etc]
> 
> Arranger: Commands and Shortcuts tailored to entering large amounts of
> music in a continuous fashion, including MIDI in.
> 
> Composer: Commands and Shortcuts tailored to manipulating the score,
> entering and altering in many ways the music entered. Extensive
> selection manipulation.
> 
> In fact, they perhaps should be placed in that order, as I suspect most
> things in Arranger might be wanted by Composer, unless someone was never
> entering music in a continuous fashion but always starting entering just
> a note or two and then cutting, pasting, altering etc. (I am sure this
> is quite common too).
> 
> Richard
> 
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