[LAU] Re: [LAA] Traverso 0.40.0 Released

Thorsten Wilms t_w_ at freenet.de
Thu Jun 14 13:35:33 EDT 2007


On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 07:15:23PM +0200, Nick Copeland wrote:

> What - you fell for that one? It was about the dumbest argument I have 
> heard, all it discussed is the meaning of the word 'intuitive' hence 
> actually says nothing about either interface.

Why would you think I wanted to say something about either interface 
there? I just adressed the issue of a word that is misused frequently. 
If you think this is a dumb argument, that has to tell as something  
about _you_.

Here as in the open DAW file format thread I would wish you were 
less agressive and more down to facts.


> I could agree less although I understand the point. The issue is that if 
> you want to make sound then the user interface has to be efficient for 
> several reasons, to start with so that CPU cycles are available for what 
> you actually want to do - make sound, and that it is responsive even under 
> heavy RT audio usage. If the interface is sluggish then you cannot 
> accomplish what you want to do. As such, efficiency is of interest.

What a limited understanding of efficiency. Responsiveness is surely a part 
of it. But regarding usability / hci, it is mainly about the amount of work 
you have to do to reach a certain goal. Like the number of clicks, the way 
to travel, the time required.


> Ardour 
> may be efficient, then again, it may also just 'seem' efficient on the big 
> fat servers it is being developed on. That is fine, design a peice of 
> software that only works on the fastest system available and its target 
> audience suddenly diminishes. Perhaps to put it another way, do we want a 
> situation where bloatware is coming to Linux - it if does not work then buy 
> a faster system?

Are you trolling?


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