[LAU] [ANN] MusE 1.0

[david]

Arnold Krille wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 December 2009 07:01:14 david wrote:
>> sonofzev at iinet.net.au wrote:
>>> On Mon Dec 21 19:05 , david  sent:
>>>> Robert Jonsson wrote:
>>>>>> One suggestion (but it may be too big a deal as the KDE folks found
>>>>>> out!), go to the more up to date QT4.
>>>>> There are no immediate plans to move, Qt3 should be around in distros
>>>>> yet for a few years. But eventually we will move. Not the least,
>>>>> there's stuff in Qt4 that would be nice to use. :)
>>>> Don't rush it. Just keep in mind that there's stuff in Qt4 that doesn't
>>>> work that works fine in Qt3, too.
>>> TMany that use MusE regularly are more concerned about jackmidi and other
>>> features that bring new functionality or interoperability. From my
>>> understanding QT4 is more of a cosmetic update and wouldn't necessarily
>>> bring more sequencer functionality in. (correct me if I'm wrong) However
>>> migrating could require a major overhaul....
>>>
>>> Robert and Tim have put in a hell of a lot of work in the past year or so
>>> and MusE is functioning really really well.  It may look a bit dated..
>>> but that's really not the point is it?
>> I'm no fan of eye candy, and that's what I think 90% of the Qt4-based
>> KDE4 *is*. I'd rather have my music computer's processor and memory
>> being used for audio than eye candy. ;-)
> 
> KDE4 != Qt4

Never said it was. But Qt4 isn't there yet for some very serious non-gui 
stuff - like printing.

> KDE just makes good use of Qt for eye-candy. But other projects make good use 
> of Qt for very serious non-gui stuff too.
> 
> Porting to Qt4 is a lot of work. But lets be honest, its a work that should 
> have been done years ago. Qt3 is out of support for several years now, why 
> anybody still writes apps with it is kind of out of my reach.
> I know free projects are notoriously short of man-power. But the more you wait 
> for that porting, the harder it is to find people still knowing about the steps 
> needed to port. So the longer you wait, the less people you can ask (for free) 
> about helping you...

Yah. And programmer egos get stroked more by doing something kewl on the 
screen than by doing something that makes a program *better*.

> And switching to Qt4 is really worth it! Lots more platform-independent basic 
> stuff with lots cleaner api. And lots nicer gui stuff:-)

Eye candy.

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