On Wednesday 03 July 2002 14:31, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

> > particularly the whole issue of user interface consistency across
> > multiple apps.
>
> In the audio world there is quite a string move away from this. Witness all
> the cool custom GUI plugins on Win32 and Mac.

You're right, and frankly, I hate it.  It's plain silly to have to spend time 
teaching production people how to use the new whatever-it-is-whizbang-thing 
because it's author chose to use a "cool custom GUI" instead of the stylebook 
standard.  It might be boring, but there is a reason why stylebooks exist.  
One of the main roles of DEs is to enforce those stylebooks.  Perhaps the 
strange UIs have a place in the consumer world, but I like to think that the 
pro audio people can avoid that.

Whew...got that off my chest...sorry for the rant...

Cheers!


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