T2 schemes

[Sicklecell666]

HI

I think at this time there are people designing some pretty 'out there' front ends to their software - I don't know if a specialist graphics person did T2 (which I personally can live with!) but the thought of skins sounds awesome - I mean look at some of the brilliant ones that have appeared for WUSIK Station.

porpoise.

You're busted, Martin!!

[Improv]

And also how much more comfortable the environment can be when you do so. Now, I do really like the T1 theme, but changing the colors can actually change my mood when recording. Kind of wierd......

Koolkeys

It also helps to change the colours depending on the time of day, how tired your eyes are,etc. Cheery colour for 11AM, dark and brooding for 3AM!

[Lunch Money]

They're included in the demo. Try Grey and Red, deviated, and Steel and Orange.

Wow, sorry to sound unpleasant, but those schemes illustrate my point very well. Whilst some aspects of the interface look OK, other aspects are buggered completely and the end result is not pretty. BTW, I was on the beta list too and considered my own attempts at creating schemes unworthy for public consumption. Quite frankly, I'm not impressed with this aspect of T2: it's ill-thought out. If the interface were skinnable, that'd be a different story.

Heh, everyone's entitled to their own opinion. How could I be offended when I love using them? It's not like I'm going to open Steel and Orange and think, "Shoot, chag doesn't like this one, so maybe it's not good." I know that it's good (at least for me), and that's about that.

However, it DOES make me curious, because if they illustrate your point, then clearly I'm missing the point. Which elements in particular do you think don't work well together?

Regarding the skinning-- it's fairly impossible, I hope you realize. Tracktion is all vector-drawn, in order to enable the scaling that you cannot and DO not get in other programs. Colour schemes are about as good as it gets.

I don't think it's ill-thought. It might not work the way you want, but you're actually the first person I've encountered who (other than the dark background issue) thinks that as a whole, the functionality is crippled. Now, that's a bit of a fallacy in logic (ad populem), but without knowing exactly how you don't think elements work together, it's about the best I can do for a counter-argument other than "yes they do." <grin>

Cheers!
Greg

[chagzuki]

I'm aware of the vector nature of the graphics. As you say, this whole issue is ultimately about one's own taste. I do have some suggestions for (simple) ways in which the colour schemes could be made more tweakable, but we can discuss this elsewhere.

[haydxn]

i love my own skins a bit gaudy for some perhaps but i like colour day of the tentacle and greenery are just the ticket for me