Re: Meeting minutes 2017-01-20

On 2018-01-22 16:00, [email protected] wrote:
> Potentially a lot of IPC traffic.
> 
> Would this filter out OSC traffic for level meters, scope and
> freqscope? If not, you open up any kind of meter, and the OSC-in light
> goes on continuously, and becomes useless for troubleshooting user
> traffic. (Or, different colors for system messages?)

definitely. i haven't really though it through myself. i got the idea 
from the original proposal here: 
https://github.com/supercollider/supercollider/issues/828

> Let's also think carefully about layout and control the height of the
> status bar. Laptop screens are wide but not tall. MS Office made a
> major UI blunder, going to those hundred-pixel-tall ribbons right at
> the same time people were switching from 1280 vertical pixels to 768
> in current PC laptops. Please let's not do that with the IDE status
> bar.
> 
> Maybe move the status bar to the side...? Speculating.

nah -- then you can't really fit text in there.

> With the current horizontal layout, if the level meters are vertical,
> you don't get much detail. If horizontal, you get more detail (and it
> would parallel the presumably horizontal volume slider) but then large
> numbers of channels would take a lot of vertical space.

first off -- i'm envisioning that the (pre-fader?) volume meter would be 
superimposed on the volume control, which saves a lot of horizontal 
space. reaktor does this and it's nice.

for multichannel, i think we should 1. vertically squeeze the channel 
meters so the bar always stays the same height, and 2. cap at 4 or 8 
channels.

these features definitely should not be fancy, just some quick visual 
aid and some friendly interfaces that will be helpful for a majority of 
our users.


nathan

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