Re: A thought on Windows Experience

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> ** (denemo:6378): WARNING **: Trying to read the pdf file
> file:///tmp/DenemoneMNfd/denemoprintA.pdf gave an error: Error opening
> file: No such file or directory
>
> starting to generate LilyPond
>
> finished generating LilyPond
>
>
> which is probably related to the problem in some kind: there is no
> directory DenemooneMNfd anywhere and I don't see why it should.

Now I have to take that one back: there is such a directory:
address@hidden:~$ ls /tmp/DenemoneMNfd/
denemoprintA.ly  denemoprintB.ly

I just happened to type the ls command in a window logged into a
different computer.

The rest is pretty much as described.

> This was using the Denemo 1.1 installer for GNU/Linux from the Denemo
> download page, on an Ubuntu 13.10 installation.
>
> It seems pretty much unusable.  I can enter notes, but I don't get
> anywhere with trying to generate output.  The print preview has several
> buttons labelled things like "Print" and other, and it is totally
> unclear what they will actually do.  Pressing them does not cause any
> effect (apart from error messages on stderr).
>
> So much for the binary install.  I am not too enthused about the
> prospect of having to compile from source just to be able to test basic
> functionality and possibly get a better clue about the intended startup
> behavior.

-- 
David Kastrup