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I wish there was a some sort of a Open Source UI squad that would just work towards making awesome UIs for projects like Audacity, GIMP etc. There are so many low hanging fruits here like - iconography, spacing, using the right widget controls etc. that would make a lot more people want to use (and hopefully support) such software.
I wish there was a some sort of a Open Source UI squad that would just work towards making awesome UIs for projects like Audacity, GIMP etc. There are so many low hanging fruits here like - iconography, spacing, using the right widget controls etc. that would make a lot more people want to use (and hopefully support) such software.
I wish there was a some sort of a Open Source UI squad that would just work towards making awesome UIs for projects like Audacity, GIMP etc. There are so many low hanging fruits here like - iconography, spacing, using the right widget controls etc. that would make a lot more people want to use (and hopefully support) such software.
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(UI) Designers don't want to work for free. This is more or less the observation I made in regards for Open Source software. Having some side projects or helping OSS is somewhat expected from a programmer. From other professions not so much.
Well, most design people also have side projects, be it a Tumblr page or an endless supply of drawings that they just do to improve their drawing skills. But that's different from helping an (OSS) application look good. For that, you have to make tons of mockups, iterate again and again, until you have something that looks good and consistent across the entire application. Ideally, you'd also want at least one other…
In the case of Audacity, I remember that I have to google how to silence a selection every time I get back to it after a break of several months. I guess this means that the primary goal is somewhat missed.
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How could it? Do you expect them to run some sort of headless Photoshop VM?
I don’t know, that wasn’t the question. In any case, is it that insane to imagine a visual diff tool? Illustrator files are basically just SVG, it’s all very parseable.
I know I've come across a debugging story that ultimately ended up with the author loading binary data into audacity and hearing/seeing a pattern. Does anyone know what I mean, and has a link, since I can't seem to find it...?
It’s fun loading images into Audacity. The audio effects look surprisingly like they sound.
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" Download Audacity Windows Installer - 19.34 MB | version: 2.2.0 | SHA256 signature Download Audacity Windows Zip - 11.31 MB | version: 2.2.0 | SHA256 signature Download Audacity macOs DMG - 28.14 MB | version: 2.2.0 | SHA256 signature Download Audacity Linux source - 9.72 MB | version: 2.2.0 | SHA256 signature Download Audacity LADSPA plugins for Mac - zip - 2.74 MB | version: 0.4.15 | SHA256 signature Download Aud…
I love seeing software that still has a "Screenshots" section of their website. It's looked the same for as long as I've been using computers to record audio, starting with my high school band's demo over 15 years ago. I could probably make fun of Audacity for not keeping up with the times, but if you look at other DAWs you'll see none are exactly bastions of good interface design. I got a little more serious about m…