8 Jun
2004
8 Jun
'04
2:56 p.m.
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 17:50, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo,
Marek Peteraj hat gesagt: // Marek Peteraj wrote:
Wrong. :)
Judging from the current situation of the audio
market that includes
proprietary app/plugins, the popularity thereof, from the numerous
reviews i've seen and from the numerous forum threads i've read...
You're representing a very small minority :)
True, my taste is special, but it's also, because people working with
Pd, Max/MSP, Supercollider or similar tools have everything they need
in those apps, thus in general they don't need to hunt down new hip
applications, which often are only doing a single task, in magazines.
But I intended to point out two other things:
* First is, that usability has nothing to do with nice looks. I
truely believe - and given some research time, I'm sure I could prove
it as well - that photorealistic graphical user interfaces modelled
after hardware when shown on a screen are far from usability.
It all depends on how you perceive different controls (different knobs
in different sections etc) and how you learn ot perceive them, i.e. how
you get to know them and how you get used to them.
Second thing is that the way you percieve them shouldn't change as you
switch applications. Which is what VST perfectly fulfills - it provides
its own UI.
Virtual 3d guis copy the real world. Try to do it the other way around,
with widget sliders and one color for both sliders and background(most
cases). Imagine a hw which would look like that.
Another such case is animations in UI. They improve usability aswell.
If carefully adjusted, they help to prevent sudden changes in the UI.
Animations are not just eye-candy.
Other
people will probably want just that: photo-GUIs.
Because they're easier to learn and get used to.
I fear, looking at
the commercial audio market, that exactly these might happen in the
Linux Sound world: eye candy, but bad usability.
What you probably prefer is modularity rather than usability. It's what
the term usability means for you.
* and then I'd like to add, that usabilty in the Linux world comes
from customizabilty,
Usability != modularity. See the Gnome HiG for examples.
Marek