Re: [Audacity-devel] Is this right?

[Vaughan J. <va...@au...>]

Gale Andrews wrote:
> | From Vaughan Johnson <va...@au...> 
> | |  > Gale Andrews wrote:
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>>> | ...
>>> Seriously though, does changing the theme actually work (I never 
>>> got it to before),  
>>>       
>> So try it!
>>     
>
> OK so I did =:), 

Sorry, I misread your wording as "never got to it" -- you *had* tried it 
before. I had gotten it to work before.


> ... yes I can edit fine in Paint.net and Office Picture Manager
> in terms of changing a toolbar image or altering the global colour 
> properties of ImageCache.png  
>   
Good.


> I think my slight beef is that theme (Greg Hardesty's?) is the default, 
> (rather than theme "off" is default), which will prompt an awful lot of
> "Can I change this" questions to our support helpers, and aesthetics
> apart, the colour contrasts are probably inadequate for VI users
> (as David says).
Yes, and it's only some of the GUI elements. Before release as beta, 
certainly, we should do as you say, and maybe offer other skins, as you 
suggested.


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>> We discussed that this might be only an alpha, and I'm now convinced of 
>> it. Things were in a more experimental, even non-working state than I 
>> understood when we started post-1.3.5, and some very important experts 
>> have been unavailable.
>>     
>
> OK, and this soften my comments above to some extent of course. 
>
> So if we are alpha, we need fairly soon to decide the web page 
> questions I posited a while ago: 
>
> * Do we have three download boxes with a new one for Alpha
>    or "Beta" box becomes "Unstable" and contains 1.3.5 and 
>    1.3.6a1 (plus related Sidebar changes in either case)
>
> * Do we have a new "alpha" warning, or work a stronger warning 
>    into the existing Beta warning (and related changes)
>
> * Is 1.3.6a1 the only "recommended download" and 1.3.5 "optional" 
>    or both 1.3.6a1 and 1.3.5 "recommended"? 
>   

I think it's still early to decide all that. We may want to just keep it 
internal, the way it's going... and just use it as a milestone.

- Vaughan