Re: A thought on Windows Experience

[Phil Burfitt]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janek Warchol" <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 10:36 PM


> > > The way many Windows installers work is that they present you as a user
> > > with a list of components to select to be installed, of which some will 
> > > be
> > > selected (or not) by default.  There's no reason not to have Frescobaldi
> > > bundled with the installer but deselectable if you don't want it.

+1

> > What about the option of having other editors such as Denemo as well as 
> > an
> > option? I myself prefer Frescobaldi, but I know that a few prefer Denemo. 
> > I
> > feel it to be a bit unfair to only have one option bundled with an
> > installer.

Frescobaldi is a text editor + previewer. It's simple and intuitive. I've 
never heard of anyone that doesn't like it, though some may prefer other 
choices.

Denemo is GUI based notation software. Has a learning curve. Hides lilypond. 
Many do not like it, myself included (sorry if I offend anyone).

Lilypond _is_ text based. Do you want to hide that or facilitate its use?

If you want to hide it, then you may also consider Musescore and any others 
that can export to lilypond format.



> This is a good idea, but as David already said, it's actually not easy
> to implement. :-/
> Hey, what about this (just for now): since it's hard to actually
> install additional software, we could at least have links to
> Frescobaldi/Denemo webpages in Lily's installer, so that the users
> could install them themselves.  David, this should be easy to do?
>
> Janek

What exactly is not easy to implement in Joseph Rushton Wakeling's 
suggestion of an optional frescobaldi install from lilypond's windows 
installer?

Phil.