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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0005286 | ardour | bugs | public | 2013-01-20 12:03 | 2013-01-22 00:04 |
| Reporter | nettings | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | major | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Summary | 0005286: The track record buttons need simpler colors, please! | ||||
| Description | With the new flashy color-gradient design, it's very hard to see at a glance whether a track is disarmed, armed, or recording. Please give me back the ugly pink and firetruck red, because that was easy to see. :) Ok, I can see how you might want it better looking than that, but when designing buttons, please bear in mind the following: During tracking, the engineer is not always in front of her display, but might be eying it from an odd angle, where TFTs make colors very hard to discern. | ||||
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should be much better in 13945, but you can always tweak this to match your own personal eye impairments: Window > Theme Manager > Record Enable Button |
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good to know it's tweakable. however, it still suffers from what i call the yamaha disease: it's hard to know what the state the button is in unless you toggle it. armed: two shades of red with gradient. unarmend: two shades of red with gradient. armed and recording: two shades of red with gradient. specifically, the armed/unarmed contrast is too subtle. once it goes into writing, the deep red is pretty good visual confirmation, but it's the arming you need to see at a glance - this is where you lose takes. i usually realize it early on, but even so, it creates unnecessary stress for the artists. suggestion: make the unarmed state plain gray, like the other buttons, maybe with a desaturated red dot. |
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oh, and while i'm nitpicking: the blinking master record button is very, very annoying, because the current shading makes it sort of jump up and down when it blinks. just brain dumping here, i guess i should attempt to fix it myself (at last, an ardour problem within my grasp!) will try tomorrow. |
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first of all, try this: rm ~/.config/ardour3/ardour3_ui.conf you must remove this file whenever testing new system colors. |
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ah, thanks, much better! that fixes the issue for me. i still don't like the blinking transport record button, but i'm going to shut up about it until i've figured out how to tweak that myself. thanks for the speedy resolution! |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2013-01-20 12:03 | nettings | New Issue | |
| 2013-01-20 12:03 | nettings | cost | => 0.00 |
| 2013-01-21 13:36 | paul | Note Added: 0014523 | |
| 2013-01-21 13:36 | paul | Status | new => feedback |
| 2013-01-21 13:48 | nettings | Note Added: 0014527 | |
| 2013-01-21 13:50 | nettings | Note Added: 0014528 | |
| 2013-01-21 13:54 | paul | Note Added: 0014531 | |
| 2013-01-22 00:04 | nettings | Note Added: 0014545 | |
| 2013-01-22 00:04 | nettings | Status | feedback => resolved |
| 2013-01-22 00:04 | nettings | Resolution | open => fixed |
