[Just Talk] Re: [linux-audio-user] Why we need graphic designers

[Nathaniel Virgo]

On Wednesday 22 January 2003 5:52 pm, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> I'll step into the role of a Pd guru for the moment:) The GUI-shadows
> aren't included in the official Pd on Miller S. Puckette's site, but you
> can checkout the devel_0_36 branch of Pd in our "Pure Data Externals
> Repository" at Sourceforge.  Homepage: pure-data.sf.net, browse CVS at
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/pure-data/. They are not
> available (or possible) as externals, you need a patched Pd.
>
> It gives you colored patch cords, shadows behind objects (which I have
> turned off, as you might have guessed by now), and also Jack-support and
> some other niceties.

Does it allow you to change the background colour as well?  Personally I find 
black-on-white displays hard to look at for long periods of time, which is 
the main reason I've never given PD a good try.