Re: Meeting minutes 2017-01-20

julian.rohrhuber-QYZGCWsIODmAF8UT6DzBU6xOck334EZe@public.gmane.org Mon, 22 Jan 2018 20:41:13 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.audio.supercollider.devel
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> On 22.01.2018, at 19:00, nathan-PB1wun9k+p9Wk0Htik3J/[email protected] wrote:
> 
> On 2018-01-22 09:11, [email protected] wrote:
>> I guess in OSX it may look outdated or inconsistent (on Linux it goes
>> unnoticed) but a more platform independent look would be better
>> indeed.
> 
> yeah, non-native GUI is a necessary evil if you want things looking professional. but that's long term. here are the improvements to the status bar i would prescribe:
> 
> - remove the coloring on the status indicators. yuck. (it's not only a general bad idea to present critical status information with color alone, but white/yellow/lime green is particularly unattractive. at least it's not red/green.)
> - interpreter on/off status indicated with a light, not text.
> - server status also indicated with a light. a little animation should be displayed if the server is booting.
> - OSC in / OSC out lights for the interpreter.
> - panic button as a clickable GUI element.
> - volume slider embedded.
> - volume monitors for input and output embedded. (accommodating everyone is a little bit tricky here -- what if the user has 64 outputs?)


great! I’m sure this will make a good improvement already. On the long run, a non-native but consistent and minimalist look is certainly the best.

Have you considered what to do with multi-server setups? It is not such an unusual case, which is currently pretty much out of scope.

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