On 01/28/2014 06:36 AM, Tres Finocchiaro wrote:
>
> /[zoom/note/scale/chord:] Those icons have been assigned to John
> Serafino and we'll just have to wait and see what he makes of them./
>
> Ok. The mock-up is just black boxes and should take just a few
> minutes. Let me know if you'd like me to render them, I don't have
> the source, so I'd need someone's assistance on that.
It's been assigned to John Serafino, like I said.
>
>
> /I may do slight edits to the transport buttons, but that's
> definitely not a direction I'm going to take with them. No offense./
>
> No offense taken so as long as you understand I'm not critiquing but
> rather trying to help.
>
> The old interface had a bunch of constancy and continuity and seems to
> borrow heavily from the oxygen theme from KDE. The new buttons I
> strongly feel although justifiably better could benefit from some
> collaboration and feedback, much like you so generously offer.
>
> /The auto-scroll has reason to be bright, as it's a toggle button
> with two distinct states (on/off), and it needs to be obvious with
> a glance what state it currently is in./
>
> Agreed, but it outshines the entire toolbar. It's not more important
> than play.
I'll look into it.
>
>
> /I think it's better to maintain a consistent style and use the
> leds we have. A combination of green/red leds is something that is
> in almost every music software, with a well-established meaning. I
> seriously doubt that anyone is going to have too much problems
> understanding what these leds do, as they are./
>
> I've composed with a lot of people new to LMMS and those LEDs are
> confusing at first. [M] and [S] help because you aren't stuck
> wondering which LED performs which function.
Well yeah, there's lots of things confusing about anything when you're
first learning it. "User-friendliness" is a two-edged sword. Think of
things like emacs. I don't use it myself personally but I know people
who swear by it, who say after getting used to it they couldn't even
stand a regular, modern-style text editor or IDE, that the interface is
simply superior when you learn how it works. Yet if you sit up someone
who is used to graphical IDE's and gedit-style editors in front of
emacs, they're likely to be very confused and not understand how to do
things.
Or think of the first time you opened a software like GIMP, many people
complain the GIMP interface is hard to understand. But once you learn
it, there's a whole new world of things you can accomplish.
The LEDs seem to fill their purpose just fine. You only have to try them
once to figure out what they do. Their functionality becomes easily
obvious by trial-and-error, or it can be read from the manual (which
admittedly should be updated). Meanwhile they're clear, nice and stay
out of the way of the user. They don't clutter the UI, and if you really
don't know what they do, there's always tooltips. I don't think adding
letters to them would improve anything, at least not enough to justify
cluttering up the interface.
>
>
> The fact that you're so quick to dismiss nearly all of my
> recommendations tells me you aren't interested in changing what you've
> already done.
Hey, let's not go there, ok? There's no need to get angry because I
disagree with you, we can just agree that we disagree on some things.
I've given you my view on the things you comment on, some of your
suggestions I agree with and have agreed to look at, others I don't
agree with and have explained my reasons why.
You can never please everyone on everything, no matter how well you do
something. Even though the reception for the new UI and theme has been
mostly positive so far, I'm 100% certain somewhere there's at least one
person who is going to hate it and would prefer the old theme and look
back. Someone is going to complain. So it falls to me to gauge which
things are problematic to many people. And I also have to make some
judgement calls, because we can't put every single detail up to a vote.
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