[LAU] yoshimi, zyn and Ardour

[david]

On 09/19/2016 03:57 AM, Mark D. McCurry wrote:
> Will Godfrey wrote:
>> As I've said elsewhere, another thing that puts me off is this obsession
>> with shades of ... black!
>
> This design choice was influenced by the feedback that the user survey
> provided.
> 65.2% of users expressed a preference for dark backgrounds, 19.6% for
> light backgrounds and 15.2% for some other combination (generally
> no-preference or requesting multiple themes).
> Future releases will likely include an easy means of retheming, though
> it doesn't look like that functionality will be available in a user
> friendly way for the initial 3.0.0 release.

Well, count me as another person who prefers light to dark backgrounds.

> David Jones wrote:
>> And I hope the controls within it will similarly be freed of their pixel
>> constraints.
>
> I can't think of a single component that has a fixed overall height or
> width.
> There's a small number of widgets which make use of a fixed padding (in
> addition to a linearly scaled padding term), but otherwise very little is
> specified in terms of pixels within the codebase.
> Basically as long as large changes in the aspect ratio aren't made
> everything rescales very nicely (IMO).

That's good!

> jonetsu wrote:
>> Was the GUI layer created from scratch or is it an existing toolkit ?
>
> It's a completely new toolkit.
> Work on this project initially started with a Qt project back in 2014,
> but using an existing toolkit didn't benefit things substantially given
> the overall requirements.
> The new toolkit is called "mruby-zest" (or just zest).
> It uses an embeddable ruby interpreter, mruby, to power the overall app
> and it uses nanovg to render all graphics via opengl.
> Overall the custom code for the new toolkit and the new UI amounts to
> around 22,000 lines of code, so it's not tiny, but I get the feeling
> that if it was implemented in another toolkit that number would be
> larger still.
> Most of this code is in a pseudo-qml like format, so at least that
> notation was borrowed from Qt.
>
> --Mark

Hmm, new toolkit ... sounds like a great way to prevent the application 
from easily taking on a user's chosen desktop theme.

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