FR: Three UI tweaks that would help

[UnionS8]

1) I fully understand the modular nature of the plugin area. But please, wouldn't be nice if the last Volume & Pan and Level meter plugins had their own container? Then it would be possible to hide all plugins but the crucial last two (or circle between both, only the second container, or none). It would also help to deal with situations when plugins break into two lines to fit the area. Again. Volume and Meter would stay at their places intact. Few pixels more, that divide the two areas would be enough, it wouldn't cost any screen real estate.
2) Plese, consider adding the ability to tweak Meters gradient. It would be nice for many people to set their own thresholds (-18 dB, -12 dB, 0 dB, and so on). The truth is this is the only reason preventing me to mix in Waveform (it means using Waveform as my main DAW).
3) Please, add more than one Ruler track. For soundtrack composing it's necessary to have at least one track for time and one for bars.
Waveform has grown over the years and could be considered as an adult DAW (although trendsetters don't talk about it). But these are quite easy tweaks (I believe) and are particularly important for a serious work.
Thank you for considering these options!
Stepaan

[Watchful]

I don't have any opinions on items 1 and 2 (they seem reasonable), but I definitely endorse item 3. I'd love to be able to track by bar/beat and time at the same moment: bar/beat is great for MIDI, but time is essential for samples, vocals, and sound effects when trying to line them up to MIDI events.

[beta male]

Great ideas, yes please.

[musirafael]

I usually have the master track at very low values (-20 to -30 dB) so as not to disturb people around me with my monitors. I happened (more than once actually) to forget to restore it at 0dB before rendering audio files and later on wonder what happened.

I would find very useful is to insert a pad attenuation button for audio monitoring in the Master Track that is independent from the master track volume fader. Ardour has a full monitoring section. You can insert plugins for room equalization, do some Mono/Stereo tests, insert padding attenuation for your monitors, etc. Very useful in all, but If taken to the minimum essentials I would only need the attenuation.