25 Jun
2004
25 Jun
'04
5:57 p.m.
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 07:09, Dave Griffiths wrote:
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 19:29, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
Equally dangerous would be reinventing the wheel. There are commercial
apps out there with brilliant interfaces and near-perfect usability. I
think anyone doing interface design for Linux audio should sample the
best of what the commercial software world has to offer before just
assuming it's all shite.
Personally I think anyone designing an interface for anything should be
required to try Ableton Live. Halion is another one I see mentioned, I
have not tried it though.
Lee
Besides, we were talking about widgets. When even
single
widgets would require to RTFM, what would that mean
for a full app?
I think there is a danger here of being too conservative - something I
think existing commercial software does (in a sense it has to). We have
to opportunity to try out new ideas that may indeed confuse a user used
to current interface standards - but as long as there is a clear logic
to whats going on it should be a rapid learning curve.