Re: [Audacity-devel] Changing the Audacity UI

[James C. <cr...@in...>]

James,

The Audacity in CVS already supports simple skinning, that is where the 
images and colours change but not changing the sizes of the images. 
It's still an experimental feature.  You would need to compile Audacity 
yourself and uncomment EXPERIMENTAL_THEMING and EXPERIMENTAL_THEME in 
experimental.h.

We have an excellent new look from Greg Hardesty which we were planning 
to hold off using until version 1.2.0.  However, I think it is important 
that we get the new look out to users as the default by early March, so 
that a large visible change is there in time for Google Summer of Code 2008.

There is work to do on it still.  The minimum is to get the 'down' 
versions of buttons into the 'image cache', as we only have good up 
buttons in there at the moment - fine for screenshots, but not for use.

Try out the new theme, and this will give you familiarity with compiling 
Audacity, which you will need to be able to do if you're to help us with 
the code for skinning support.


--James.




James Kilts wrote:
> Would anyone be open to the idea of modifying the look of Audacity (I have a
> few ideas if anyone would be interested), or adding a skinning engine to
> allow customization of the user interface?  I've been using Audacity for a
> few months and I like the functionality, I'm just not crazy about the UI.
> I'd like to make this enhancement, but I don't want to go through the work
> only to find that no one wants it to change.

> - James K