From: Chris Cannam <cannam@...>
Subject: [LAA] ROSEGARDEN 10.02 RELEASED!
Date: Feb 15, 1:50 pm 2010
[Forwarding D. Michael McIntyre's release note from the Rosegarden
devel list...]
====== ROSEGARDEN 10.02, codename "Thorn" RELEASED ======
The Rosegarden team is proud to announce the release of version 10.02 of
Rosegarden, an audio and MIDI sequencer and musical notation editor for Linux.
This release on 14th February, 2010 marks five years to the day since the
release of 1.0 (which would be be called 05.02 using our current numbering
scheme).
http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/
With this release, we finally bring an end to the long and difficult job of
transforming Rosegarden from an obsolete KDE 3 application into a modern Qt 4
application. There was no precedent for an application following this upgrade
path, and so we had to begin this process by writing our own custom porting
tools. From there, we spent an entire year chipping away at an immense
mountain of compiler errors before we could even get a glimpse to see if our
new code was going to work. From that first peek until now swallowed the
biggest part of a second year, digging into every dusty corner, and putting
everything back in order.
Along the way, we found plenty of opportunities to improve Rosegarden, and get
this new codebase turned into an exciting landmark release that rivals 1.0 for
the sheer amount of collective effort that went into its making. We have
fixed hundreds of bugs, including many old bugs that had been around for
years, and we have introduced dozens of new features.
===== Usability Enhancements =====
* With its bold new custom look, including hundreds of new icons, Rosegarden
ensures all of its interface elements are usable, freeing you to configure the
rest of your system any way you like
* With its more compact, netbook-friendly interface, Rosegarden gets more
done with less screen real estate
* Rosegarden has a low installation footprint, and creates local, user-
editable copies of all example and library files
* Expanded translations (varies by language) put more of Rosegarden in your
native language than has ever been possible before
* You may now run as many instances of Rosegarden as you like, in parallel,
and can even install and run different versions simultaneously
* Enhanced device management support, including an all-new MIDI device
manager, finally addresses a number of long-standing usability issues and bugs
* Control rulers (notation and matrix) completely redesigned from the ground
up to use primary editing tools (eg. pencil) and present controller data as a
series of connected points that may be manipulated very fluidly and easily
* Control rulers share a selection with their associated editor (notation or
matrix), allowing control events to be cut, copied and pasted along with notes
* A number of non-critical warning dialogs about system configuration issues
have been moved out of your way, and onto a compact health indicator at the
bottom right of the main window
* You can add, display and access what we hope will prove to be an
effectively unlimited number of MIDI controllers in the instrument parameters
box, eliminating the need for an alternative tabbed layout mode
* New streamlined interface merges the insertion cursor functions into the
playback cursor, so Rosegarden has only one cursor at long last
* All new integrated project packager provides built-in, native support for
Rosegarden project packages, eliminates a number of obscure dependencies, and
provides a cleaner user experience
* Document modified status is indicated in the title bar
* Markers text entry fields have been renamed to make it more clear which of
the two editable texts is the functional one
* The simple event editor now handles notation-quantized notes more
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