[Hydrogen-devel] A couple of GUI considerations

[Jakob L. <jl...@im...>]

Hi everyone

I sent a mockup screenshot to this list earlier (on june 30th, and mockup on 
july 9th), bot noone really commented on it (in fact Scott did, and he even 
sent some additional patches, but none of them got merged in).

The benefit of the 'sidebar' approach is that it (sort of) solves the 
bugginess with vertically resizing the song / pattern editors while 
the 'instrument rack' is visible. The rack is also narrowed to minimize the 
amount of empty screen space.

If I succeed at getting write access, and if noone here complains, I think 
I'll simply merge it right in :-)


Apart from that, I think the 'instrument rack' need a graphical makeover - it 
looks like just the boxes (used to be seperate windows) from the old Hydrogen 
UI slapped onto a panel. 
· There's some random-looking unused space.
· The content of the 'layers' part gets clipped if the window isn't tall 
enough.
· The name of the pattern is visible on the 'general' tab, but not on 
the 'layers' tab, which is confusing. (this is partly fixed by the above 
mentioned patch that gives the 'rack' more vertical space.)
· I think using an 'ordinary' tab widget instead to choose between 'general' 
and 'layers' would be more understandable, visually.

What do you all think of this?

Chills (need those - its 35 °C in the evening here...)
Jakob Lund.