4 Sep
2014
4 Sep
'14
12:09 a.m.
On 09/03/2014 12:00 PM, Filipe Coelho wrote:
The latest stable one has it at least.
Then it hasn't made any difference at the UI end.
I don't think having customizable options is the purpose of that UI.
The author of that mockup designed a new layout for Zyn that would fit
all the dialogs into a single window, which I find very nice.
I'd implement that UI myself if I wasn't so busy with other projects...
If you're going to redesign the UI that much, you might as well address
the biggest weakness of the whole thing - the insistence on a fixed
size, small window in the first place.
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On 09/03/2014 10:48 PM, david wrote:
History. IIRC, Yoshimi happened because the Zyn and Yoshimi developers
didn't agree on direction or features or something like that. No because
Zyn wasn't being maintained.
Besides, competition is good!
On 09/03/2014 11:42 AM, Filipe Coelho wrote:
My apologies then.
I didn't come to Linux until somewhat recently (6 years?)
Anyway, it was my impression that Zyn was unmaintained for a while and
because of that Yoshimi was created.
Then Zyn got a maintainer that was actively fixing things so the Yoshimi
fork just doesn't seem as critical as before.
Maybe I'm missing something here...? On 09/03/2014 10:36 PM, david wrote:
That wasn't my experience when I mentioned it several years ago. Maybe
things are getting better. My understanding is that requests to give Zyn a
modern UI fall on deaf
ears because it's the way the developer likes it.
Completely false. The current Zyn release already has had a small UI
change by using NTK
instead of FLTK.
See http://non.tuxfamily.org/wiki/NtkPatches
This has been merged a few months ago.
Hmm, OK, what version of Zyn has that? There were also talks about doing a completely new
UI.
This concept so far is the most widely praised for this:
http://budislavtvp.deviantart.com/art/ZynAddSubFX-UI-Concept-2014-455890191
Looks nice. Is the screen fully resizable, font size customizable,
etc? With multi desktop environments, I can easily give Zyn/Yoshimi
it's own full desktop.