Re: [Rosegarden-devel] added doc on guitar chords

[Heikki J. J. <hj...@gm...>]

2007/10/31, D. Michael McIntyre <mic...@ro...>:
> On Tuesday 30 October 2007, Chris Cannam wrote:
> > Next question: do we want to put either of the new startup dialogs
> > (the "new version available" dialog or the "welcome" one) into 1.6.0?
>
> I wouldn't mind, but they're really rough, and I'd like for us to make at
> least some effort at tweaking them before they go public.
>

The splash is beautiful. I considered it as a current "welcome".

> > Reasons not to push it into 1.6.0: our download page needs an overhaul
> > first;
>
> We can overhaul that anytime.  Few people will see the dialog until around a
> year from now anyway.
>
> > our welcome text isn't very good yet; it would add more strings
> > to translate; we would probably want to merge the "package not found"
> > dialogs if we were adding yet more new startup dialogs, which means
> > more work; and if we don't do anything else to 1.6.0, we can get a pre1
> > tarball built (and start a formal string freeze) before the end of
> > October, which is not exactly meeting our target but is slightly more
> > satisfying than getting nothing at all out this month either.
>
> True.  I just about think it's worth throwing something out though, even if
> it's crap.  Just because if we don't, it will be 18 months from now or more
> before anyone ever sees it.
>
> --
> D. Michael McIntyre

I would also put this version adverting in. But, the choice "hide this
message forever",
could be changed into "hide this message until version number pumps up again".

It would be a nice way to inform the users of Rosegarden when new version
would appear again.


-- 

Heikki