Re: [Rosegarden-user] [Rosegarden-devel] [Rosegarden-bugs] SF.net SVN: rosegarden:[10741] branches/notation_toolbar/src/gui/editors/ notation

[Julie S <msj...@ya...>]

Dear Michael,

you wrote:
> I would have thought, and these criticisms just strike me
> as such stupid  
> conditions upon which to hinge the make or break of this
> new paradigm.  The 
> toolbars are where they are for semantic reasons.  Why
> would anyone ever screw 
> that up, and what possible use is it to undock these
> things? And then there's 
> that damned right click menu from Qt that I don't want and
> can't turn off.
> 

I agree on many levels with you.  I remember when undocking toolbars was all the rage in MS windows 95.  I thought it was stupid then, and I think it is stupid now.  I hate floating toolbars...but... some people swear (in a good way) by them.

Nobody is arguing against the new paradigm.  It's great.  I just want to implement an elegant version of the paradigm.  I want it to function well under all the "typical" possibilities.

Maybe if you try to think of this as a honing.  Your code definitely proved the concept and we like it.  But 4 corners is stable under the hood visually, we need to meet that standard with this or put it on the back burner for now and come back to it later.

I vote to move on while there is still momentum.

You wrote:
> If you can come up with 
> something, more power to you, and if you can't, I'll write
> the code to 
> manually populate and repopulate the damn toolbar. 
> All this lacks to work is 
> having morphMonobar() actually do what it's being told to
> do.

I'm on it.
> Fsck it.  I'm done with the yard work, and now I'm
> going to drink beer and 
> cook dinner and try to ignore all of this for awhile. 

I got one down and starting another, but that sadly is the last one in the house.  2 is good.

Sincerely,
Julie S.