Re: A thought on Windows Experience

2013-12-04 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2013-12-05 um 01:12 schrieb David Kastrup : > Francisco Vila writes: > >> 2013/12/4 David Kastrup : >>> The last time this discussion came up, Frescobaldi did not work on >>> MacOSX. And it comes with its own dependencies. And installers. >> >> Fresco is now in Macports (whatever that mea

Re: A thought on Windows Experience (was: useability, promoting, etc)

2013-12-04 Thread Phil Burfitt
From: "Urs Liska" Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 6:16 PM I am willing to look at improving the Windows experience, although this would need to wait until my degree finishes next Summer. However, there's one thing I don't know: what should happen when you double-click a .ly file in Explo

Re: A thought on Windows Experience

2013-12-04 Thread David Kastrup
Francisco Vila writes: > 2013/12/4 David Kastrup : >> The last time this discussion came up, Frescobaldi did not work on >> MacOSX. And it comes with its own dependencies. And installers. > > Fresco is now in Macports (whatever that means) and I think that means > it is now very easy to install

Re: A thought on Windows Experience

2013-12-04 Thread Francisco Vila
2013/12/4 David Kastrup : > The last time this discussion came up, Frescobaldi did not work on > MacOSX. And it comes with its own dependencies. And installers. Fresco is now in Macports (whatever that means) and I think that means it is now very easy to install there. -- Francisco Vila. Badajo

Re: A thought on Windows Experience (was: useability, promoting, etc)

2013-12-04 Thread Francisco Vila
2013/12/4 Phil Holmes : > For me, I'd say that we should not install Frescobaldi as a pre-requisite of > running Lily on Windows. I'm a heavy Windows user, and would not want > another program installed by default. But you _already_ have another program installed by default: the lilypad editor. W

Re: A thought on Windows Experience

2013-12-04 Thread David Kastrup
Francisco Vila writes: > But wait: this has been done. Valentin Villenave dit it once. A bundle > that installed a PDF viewer and a small button panel with all the most > basic operatons. I don't remember if it included a message output. I was of the impression that LilyPad _was_ what was delive

Re: A thought on Windows Experience (was: useability, promoting, etc)

2013-12-04 Thread Urs Liska
>I am willing to look at improving the Windows experience, although this > >would need to wait until my degree finishes next Summer. However, >there's >one thing I don't know: what should happen when you double-click a .ly >file >in Explorer: open an editor or compile the file? And if the fo

Re: A thought on Windows Experience (was: useability, promoting, etc)

2013-12-04 Thread James
On 04/12/13 17:24, Francisco Vila wrote: Warning. I this message, "Why don't we" does not mean "do it, you slave". It means just asking "do you think it's a worthwhile idea?" The thread about usability and promoting has forked too much and my thoughts are somewhat related to both. I am crosspost

Re: A thought on Windows Experience (was: useability, promoting, etc)

2013-12-04 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Francisco Vila" To: "LilyPond-User list" ; "LilyPond-Devel list" Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 5:24 PM Subject: A thought on Windows Experience (was: useability, promoting, etc) Warning. I this message, "Why don&#x

A thought on Windows Experience (was: useability, promoting, etc)

2013-12-04 Thread Francisco Vila
Warning. I this message, "Why don't we" does not mean "do it, you slave". It means just asking "do you think it's a worthwhile idea?" The thread about usability and promoting has forked too much and my thoughts are somewhat related to both. I am crossposting to hear users feedback also, sorry for