Re: [LMMS-devel] [Lmms-users] Current state of 0.4.x and general UI-design questions

[Tobias D. <tob...@gm...>]

Am Monday, 17. März 2008 05:32:35 schrieb Paul Wayper:
> Isn't it already?  How does it work in 0.3?
For sure not.

> I can set LMMS to have two 
> processors and it seems to use both cores to render a track - I can get up
> to about 175% CPU usage across two procesors, so I suppose I'm getting
> about the same results you are.
Maybe that's because of excessive GUI-thread-usage i.e. 
screen-updates/animatins. The render-process itself will always only take 
max. 100% in 0.3.x

> Well, I like the idea of an 'editor' window just changing behaviour, but
> it's definitely handy to be able to view a rhythm, a piano roll and an
> automation side by side, so to speak.
Why? Anyways it looks like we can satisfy this requirement too, see below.

> Likewise, it'd be really good if one 
> could see two piano rolls simultaneously to compare timing of notes.
hm one could add a split-view (like in Konqueror) to have to patterns open in 
one piano-roll. Having two piano-rolls is a bad idea in my eyes.

> One idea I'd suggest is to make ctrl-tab more like alt-tab.  At the moment
> (on 0.3.2) it just cycles through the windows but seems to go off through
> 16 or so invisible windows before going through the list again.  It'd be
> nice to see a list of windows, and reorder them so that the most recently
> used window was put next in the queue.
The new dock-interface will make this obsolete I think ;-)

> But I'm interested in this 'dock' idea - can you explain that a little
> further?
See http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/mainwindows-dockwidgets.html - on the right 
side there're 2 dock-widgets. You can move, resize, close and undock them. 
Furthermore several docks can be stacked onto each other so that a tab-bar is 
displayed where you can switch between the docks. Beside that search for "qt 
dock widget" at google picture-search and you'll see further examples of 
what's meant.

Said that the editor-window could have several tabs for the editors - by 
dragging a tab to somewhere you can undock the editor or move it to somewhere 
else as normal dock. The attached mockup shows a basic idea for the new GUI.

toby