Sorry people, realised I had accidentally sent this one just
to Piotr
and not to the whole list...
Dan Weatherill wrote:
> I think that GNOMEifying the ardour GUI is a very, very
bad idea. A
> lot of people use KDE (myself included). I don't want
to start a flame
> war about the different DEs, but at the moment ardour
is equally happy
> on either so it doesn't matter. We do not want to be in
the position
> of leaning ardour specifically toward GNOME. I think it
should be the
> open source DAW for linux, not the open source DAW just
for gnome. At
> the moment the ardour GUI style looks reasonably
consistent accross
> both desktops. It is at least self consistent. If you
apply GNOME GUI
> standards, then it will look very out of place in the
KDE desktop.
> Furthermore, just about all the proprietary apps of
this kind have
> their own unique "look and feel". I think
that Ardour currently also
> has this, and this is one of the things that actually
makes it just
> that little bit more competitive with all those
proprietary solutions
> out there. Just my two pence,
> Dan
>
>
> Piotr Zaryk wrote:
>> I meant that Ardour uses GTK and GNOME GUI
standards would be
>> welcome. I think we shold set some rules how to
design Ardour GUI. It
>> is changing on every Ardour release.
>>
>> It's obvious because Ardour is still in development
but I think some
>> rules could prevent the mess in the interface and
could simplify it.
>> That, in fact will make writing Ardour
documentation easier.
>>
>> 2008/4/13, Ray Rashif <schivmeister gmail.com
>> <mailto:schivmeistergmail.com>>:
>>
>> Since when is Ardour exclusively "part of
GNOME"? IMHO that's
>> something very minor, but I definitely agree on
the KISS principle
>> of language and navigation although I'm not a
developer. Doesn't
>> look like a priority, but may be suitable for
the TODO list.
>>
>> On 13/04/2008, *Piotr Zaryk* <pzarykgmail.com
>> <mailto:pzarykgmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a little suggestion for the
Ardour GUI. For a
>> professional look and usability it would be
great to change a
>> few things: do not repeat words in the
interface that are
>> included in the tab name or higher category
(for ex. menu
>> Edit>Nudge>(Nudge) Forward). The
'nudge' in the bracket should
>> be removed. Im am a member of a
professional GNOME/Mozilla
>> translators team Aviary.pl and our
standards include this
>> recommendation. Ardour is a part of GNOME
and the standards
>> tells about KISS and the language economy.
The Less words, the
>> more interface is clear and professional.
>> I could change the strings myself but
would like to know
>> how to do that. Should I use Glade and edit
some files or only
>> the change of a pot file is needed?
>> What do you thing about it?
>>
>> -- Best Regards,
>> Piotr Zaryk
>>
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>> Piotr Zaryk
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