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On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Chris Cannam

 wrote:

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> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Brett McCoy  wrote:

>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:33 AM, David Baron  wrote:

>>

>>> rosegarden   also does scoring. I found it nearly impossible to use for this.

>>> It is one of the most complete DAW programs in linux but is now dated, stuck

>>> with KDE3, could not run on KDE4. Being converted to QT4?

>>

>> Yep, port to KDE4 (known as Thorn) is in the works.

>

> In fact it's a port to Qt4, with no KDE dependencies at all.

Oh, ok, I always get mixed on that point :-)
> You can get the code from the current Rosegarden Subversion trunk.

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> It's in a state which is worth messing with, but not yet worth

> reporting bugs in -- there are still too many known omissions, and you

> can't quite get real projects done with it yet.

>

> The port is a big effort; it's taken a handful of part-time developers

> nearly 18 months and over two thousand Subversion commits so far.

> Most of the work is done, but it's a tiring business.  It looks a bit

> different from the KDE3 version, but don't expect much in the way of

> new features; hopefully there should be some improvements to excuse

> all that work, but the first goal is just to get most of the existing

> features working.

I will note there are some nice enhancements to the notation GUI.
-- Brett

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