We have retired skins in the past, if they were unmaintained, outdated and had
a successor (e.g. Outline, Phoney, LatenightBlues…).
In acknowledgment of the good work of the current contributors, we basically
keep tradition.
I`m not happy with changing the default skin once again for the 2.1 release,
but if we carefully carry the existing users over, it works just like with
previous migrations.
Requirement imo is that we make the parallel waveform display for the new
default skin easily discoverable or default.
* Slow loading of Tango/exDeere
Most SVGs are blown up because of Inkscapes metadata spamming. With default
settings, Inkscape tents to inject all kind of stuff.
I found saving with the ``Optimized svg`` settings helpful.
A pre-release batch run with https://github.com/svg/svgo
<https://github.com/svg/svgo> should bring down sizes by a significant amount.
Also clean-up css, and have a look at the log for warnings at skin
(re-)load.
Then test again against Shade ( which would likely load slower as well, if
feature complete, truly resizable, and had proper qss utilization). But OK,
lets take it as benchmark.
* Yellow LateNight
Well, it became yellow because someone liked the color ;-) , and took the
time to update the skin for the 2.0 features.
Any reason to add yellow to any of the current 2.1 feature skins? Not a
requirement for me.
* Cardwall/Radio skin
This comes up on occasion for years, but nothing really came out of it.
If there is demand, one can build a generic card wall with the existing
features within Mixxx.
But lets be realistic: If done right, it won’t happen for 2.1
For a kicker cardwall - master sync for sampler, playback modes
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bug/774808> and loop recorders
<https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/pull/45> are requirements imo.
None of that stops us to decide the fate of the legacy skins now.
Wth Latenight and Shade gone, it is a good time to put the Deere moniker to
rest, sweep the floor and find a proper new name.
The current version <https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/pull/940> has evolved
much from the more than 7 years old original concept.
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