File CHANGES.txt of Package rosegarden

The Rosegarden team is proud to announce the release of version 11.02 of
Rosegarden, an audio and MIDI sequencer and musical notation editor for Linux.

http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/

This is a bug fix release that addresses a few of those annoying problems that
hang around for the longest time, because they are rather complicated to fix.
The most notable of these is that nine years after the first complaints, we
have FINALLY found some sensible way to handle tied notes in the matrix and
notation editors. We really painted ourselves into a corner with our design,
and we scratched our heads for years just trying to come up with some plan of
attack for this one. In the end, what we did was address the problem by
modifying the behavior of selections to treat chains of tied notes as an
unbreakable whole, instead of as separate links in an easily broken chain. This
behavior is quite different, but it seems to be working rather well.

The splash screen photo shows a winter scene from Michael's rose garden on
Christmas Day, 2010, five days before Michael's beloved black labrador retriever
died from complications arising from canine epilepsy.


Bug Fixes

    * Track numbers are no longer cut off

    * The notation and matrix editors now treat a series of tied notes as
      though it were a single unit, which fixes several problems that have been
      outstanding since as far back as 2002

    * Resizing a segment via click and drag near the edge or with the resize
      tool now leaves that segment as the selected segment

    * When attempting to select a note by clicking toward the extreme edges of
      the note head, it is less likely that you will move the note instead of merely
      selecting it

    * Insertion / Playback pointer correctly advances in Notation editor when
      entered notes are split and tied.

    * Progress dialogs tweaked to fine tune their behavior

    * Alt+PgUp and Alt+PgDown now highlight the events in a segment in Notation
      view consistently



New Features

    * The matrix editor represents tied notes with a different fill pattern

    * The split-and-tie long notes option has been made the factory default
      once more, in light of the vastly improved handling of ties in the matrix and
      notation editors



Available Languages
The following translations are complete and up to date for this release:

    * Spanish (español o castellano)
    * French (français)
    * German (Deutsch)

The following languages are missing fewer than 50 translations:

    * Czech (česky)

The following languages are missing fewer than 100 translations:

    * Japanese (日本語)
    * Swedish (svenska)
    * Finnish (suomi)

The following languages are missing fewer than 500 translations:

    * Chinese (中文)
    * Italian (italiano)

The following languages are missing more than 1000 translations:

    * Russian (русский)
    * Dutch (Nederlands)

The following languages are missing more than 2000 translations:

    * Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia)

The following languages are missing more than 4000 translations:

    * Catalan (Català)
    * Welsh (Cymraeg)
    * Estonian (eesti)
    * Basque (euskara)
    * Polish (polski)

Statistics based on the number of “unfinished” translations. This reflects the
number of strings needing a translator's attention, and in some cases there may
be existing translations awaiting approval.


Active translators for this release:

    * D. Michael McIntyre
    * Thorsten Alteholz
    * Yves Guillemot



People who contributed device files to the Rosegarden Library

    * Peter Knaggs
    * Shannon Hughes