[linux-audio-user] Re: rosegarden without KDE?

[Rob]

On Sun February 26 2006 17:12, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 16:55 -0500, Rob wrote:
> > I hope this isn't the design philosophy for GNOME apps
> > nowadays.... "put minimal configurability into the app and
> > let the power users install the equivalent of regedit."
>
> Unfortunately it is.  The Gnome developers get very angry if
> you compare it to the Windows registry "because ours is XML
> rather than a binary blob" - which confuses bad DESIGN with
> bad IMPLEMENTATION.

Yeah, I only run Windows apps under Wine, which saves the 
registry as a set of text files rather than a binary blob, and 
it's still annoying to have to hack the registry.  Geez, guys, 
it won't kill your newbie target audience to have an "advanced" 
button here and there.

Rob