Comment 5 for bug 308303

I just started trying these and getting rosegarden working is surprisingly difficult in my case. I'd even compare the difficulty to Apache configuration with ssl + authenticate against openldap database for a newbie who just managed to understand & configure vsftpd. There are a lot of cases that this works, that doesn't etc and strange behavior.

As of dependency, reading documents (especially this one: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Manuals/Rosegarden/Setup) you can see rosegarden expects professional users, and assume you have hardware midi device. This is IMHO basically a wrong approch because new user has to manage to get it work before deciding going professional and buy hardware devices, whlie there is no second Linux free software with similiar function but orient beginner so they had to begin with professional software. But, if you make rosegarden depends on timidity it might make professional users who hate to have timidity running pissed off.

Personally I don't mind piss off some "professional users" and sometimes I would love to do so when they cannot think user-oriented. I'd vote a "yes" on this but still want to share above information with you.