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This seems to be an interesting project. It's interesting that the website seems better than the average GNU project, notably the look and community parts. Ho

by jbk 13y ago

This seems to be an interesting project. It's interesting that the website seems better than the average GNU project, notably the look and community parts. However, I don't really get what it brings to the table compared to other LilyPond frontends like Frescobaldi or Laborejo. I'd love to be enlightened on that part :) On a personal technical side, I'm not really a fan of using GTK3 for crossplatform UIs (I've had my share of pain with it, like many people), and I don't really like the absenc of folders/hierarchy in the src folder (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/denemo.git/tree/src http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/denemo.git/tree/src) or the fact that the NEWS file is outdated (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/denemo.git/tree/NEWS http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/denemo.git/tree/NEWS)

quesebifurcan 13y ago
Denemo seems to offer more "direct" input methods for easily transcribing music. The program can listen to rhythms and pitches separately and combine them, rendering the result with Lilypond (or, at least, that was all I was able to figure out before the site went down). It seems like a neat, light-weight tool which one could preferably use when transcribing music. For serious typesetting, Frescobaldi, http://musescore.org/ http://musescore.org/ or http://abjad.mbrsi.org/ http://abjad.mbrsi.org/ are probably better choices. Anyway, it's great to see yet another application tapping into Lilypond. So much work and knowledge has gone into that project.
- passionfruit 13y ago
  Denemo has better Lilypond output than Musescore and is not merely a specialized text editor like Frescobaldi.
jordigh 13y ago
> It's interesting that the website seems better than the average GNU project, notably the look and community parts. As a GNU Octave dev, it makes me feel sad that "GNU" no longer has the cachet that it had in the 90's and early 00's. It went from being a mark of quality to being outdated, disorganised, and lunatic. Oh well. I still support GNU. Hopefully you'll like the new GNU Octave web design we're working on.
- eliasmacpherson 13y ago
  Don't be disheartened. I find that kind of dated look reassuring - it hasn't been broken for so long that nobody dared to fix it! People have relied on the software, and it's in repositories and what's more it (sometimes) continues to be recommended. Something new and shiny makes me wonder "how long will this last", I suppose because of advances in web technology it doesn't take as long to put a nice website together. Sometimes I even wonder if time would have been better spent on the actual project and not the website.
  - jordigh 13y ago
    In this case, the new website design was sort of "donated" by one of our former GSoC students, so it's not like it took away development from Octave itself. The student's GSoC contributions were to another website project of ours.

by jbk 13y ago

quesebifurcan 13y ago

Denemo seems to offer more "direct" input methods for easily transcribing music. The program can listen to rhythms and pitches separately and combine them, rendering the result with Lilypond (or, at least, that was all I was able to figure out before the site went down). It seems like a neat, light-weight tool which one could preferably use when transcribing music. For serious typesetting, Frescobaldi, http://musescore.org/ http://musescore.org/ or http://abjad.mbrsi.org/ http://abjad.mbrsi.org/ are probably better choices. Anyway, it's great to see yet another application tapping into Lilypond. So much work and knowledge has gone into that project.

passionfruit 13y ago
Denemo has better Lilypond output than Musescore and is not merely a specialized text editor like Frescobaldi.

jordigh 13y ago

> It's interesting that the website seems better than the average GNU project, notably the look and community parts. As a GNU Octave dev, it makes me feel sad that "GNU" no longer has the cachet that it had in the 90's and early 00's. It went from being a mark of quality to being outdated, disorganised, and lunatic. Oh well. I still support GNU. Hopefully you'll like the new GNU Octave web design we're working on.

eliasmacpherson 13y ago
Don't be disheartened. I find that kind of dated look reassuring - it hasn't been broken for so long that nobody dared to fix it! People have relied on the software, and it's in repositories and what's more it (sometimes) continues to be recommended. Something new and shiny makes me wonder "how long will this last", I suppose because of advances in web technology it doesn't take as long to put a nice website together. Sometimes I even wonder if time would have been better spent on the actual project and not the website.
- jordigh 13y ago
  In this case, the new website design was sort of "donated" by one of our former GSoC students, so it's not like it took away development from Octave itself. The student's GSoC contributions were to another website project of ours.