[LAU] [Bulk] Re: Yoshimi, in Carla?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 22:42 +0100, Filipe Coelho wrote:
> http://non.tuxfamily.org/wiki/NtkPatches

Black potentiometers on black background, the common idiot fashion. The
turned off options are shadowed, dark gray font on black background, so
you need to enable it, before you can read it. IOW Zyn isn't intended
for visually impaired people or for usage on stage, when a spotlight is
in competition with the monitor, it's intended to become another Linux
toy, that is unusable for serious audio work. Congratulations!

Apps should use the DE's/WM's theme, if they don't do it, they should
provide a sane GUI, for the black is beautiful folks, at least do it
similar to this:
http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/zita-rev1-doc/zita-rev1.png 

For serious usage contrast is needed. If you make the background not
completely black and you use colours for the potentiometers it's ok.

For some apps it's useful to provide their own themes, e.g. for Ardour,
but for simple GUIs, it's better to use the user's theme or at least
thinking about the design.