--- On Wed, 6/17/09, Brian Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote:
> .... Contrast and edge-definition
> makes the
> controls easier to spot with your eyes. Also anything that
> leaves more
> processing power to the radio functions is strongly to be
> desired. I
> don't want to give up a single CPU cycle to "eye-candy" if
> I don't have to.
Yes I 100% agree. And the comment about "contrast and edge-definition" squarely
hits the nail on the head. That is one of everal things that I really dislike
about the progress bars, icons etc, of the Windows Vista's UI defaults (and
many other new software products in general as far as that goes). Everytime I
work with Vista in the lab at work the screen looks like a collection of
"mushy" objects and blurry lines. And the "melted/polished glass" look of the
icons, progress bars, etc. I also find to be straining on the eyes, and not the
least bit of any improvement - in fact I see it as being a general step
backward in UI "design and looks" because it seeks to make you focus on the
item (picture) on the computer screen as a real world object. I don't want
that. I want to look/see *beyond* the item *on* the computer screen and instead
optimize the presentation of what the water/panadapter is actually
representing. In short I don't want to see pictures of
"physical objects" - I want to let the computer and the program's UI to show
me the "abstract", or in other words, the things that I cannot normally see,
i.e. RF spectrum.
The idealized look of the UI for me is a nearly 100% screen sized
padapter/waterfall with a an absolute minimum of "controls" around it. I'm also
becoming increasingly convinced that virtually all of the adjustments that I
would want to routinely make can be done from *within* the visual space of the
panadapter/waterfall itself.
As a side note: I'm finally getting some time to actually run this stuff again
after a lengthy "shack all dismantled" downtime. Currently am re-familiarizing
myself with the PowerSDR version that I had last used - 1.12 (yes that far
back). I soon plan to warp ahead a year or so to the current released version +
the various SVN's. I expect that experience to be very enlightening given my
"hands on" absence from the 1000/5000a & PowerSDR for the better part of a
year..
Duane
N9DG
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