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

There's two forces at work here: laziness and opinion. The programmers doing this in their spare time understandably don't want to reinvent the wheel, especially not doing something as mundane as GUI can be. More featureful toolkits allow for more featureful apps with less effort. Plus some people like KDE and Gnome. My own tastes steer me to using the gui toolkit only and not the desktop framework, which necessarily drives any software I write to be more simple. This is because I as a user prefer fewer dependencies, and I believe more people will use my stuff if they don't have to install everything under the sun to use it. I also happen to think that good UIs are simple and like to delude myself into thinking my choice of only a toolkit (usually Qt) and my laziness are actually positive factors. :-) Also I shouldn't hope to deceive anyone into thinking I write much GUI code of any significance. I'm quite bad at it. But I completely understand where developers that want to leverage the more powerful frameworks are coming from. Incidentally, disk space continues to be a problem even outside of Africa. I have ample disk space but most of it is tied up in music and video and my original guess at how big to make my root partition was a little conservative. Although I did set up LVM, I'm too lazy to do anything about it and so I am back to watching disk space and cleaning cruft (and non-cruft) off my system periodically in fits of rage. Mostly I don't want to have to decide which media must go to make room, and I always think I'm going to use that media drive space for audio projects anyhow... Just my $0.02 in this rantfest. On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 at 23:10 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: -- Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach