17 Jan
2004
17 Jan
'04
12:33 p.m.
Hallo,
Steve Harris hat gesagt: // Steve Harris wrote:
True enough :) but I think it takes a reasonable
ammount of talent to make
really intuative and compact UIs (screen realestate is an issue) even if
if doesnt have a photorealistic interface. Theres a loopbased performace
instrument that I think is a really good example (I cant remeber its
name),
Ableton Live, maybe? It has a exceptionally well thought out
interface, IMO.
it only uses geometric 2-tone widgets, but its got an
easy to use
interface and is well disigned. Personally, I dont have design skills
anywhere near that good, and I havent seen anything as good from other LAD
developers.
I also prefer the people who studied design somehow to do design work.
Regarding OpenGL: Although this could be a nice API for doing all
kinds of interfaces, the hardware side on Linux is looking
increasingly worse because of the XFree86 peoples' decision to go
modular and allow closed source drivers for DRI. Now we're in a
situation, where only old chipsets like Matrox G550 or incapable ones
like the Intel graphics chips have open source Open GL drivers. Nvidia
OTOH does provide decent drivers but they are closed source and
reportedly also could have a bad impact on audio performance. Even
most newer ATI cards don't have open source OpenGL drivers anymore,
although there are efforts to write some.
All this is really a problem to be considered when deciding to base a
GUI on Open GL. In most (audio) cases a 2D-interface would suffice,
I'm sure.
ciao
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