Re: [LMMS-devel] LMMS 0.4.7 for testing (especially Win64)

[Jonathan A. <eag...@gm...>]

i agree totally the UI is lacking and needs to be worked on. the problem is
lack of devs. there is such a small dev team that other things sometimes
take priority over esthetics of the UI. I would love to take up this UI
issue but the thing is i dont know qt, not to mention im helping paul giblox
in implementing something for Unison.

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Rob <sou...@ku...> wrote:

> On Sunday 01 August 2010 19:35, Kevin Fishburne wrote:
> > I agree that the current MDI/child windowing needs to go. It's a big
> >  productivity holdback, especially if you have multiple monitors. A
>
> A bunch of little windows floating around on the desktop unmanaged by the
> program is a big productivity holdback too, no matter how many monitors you
> have... even the Gimp developers have finally given in and come up with a
> single-window version.
>
> I agree that the 1995-style MDI in use here causes problems sometimes -- on
> my 13" notebook screen, I frequently find myself scrolling all over the
> place to find windows whose default placement is meant for desktop
> resolutions, not ultralight notebook resolutions.  But some more modern
> kind of MDI, such as a docking interface a la Eclipse, Kdevelop or Gambas
> (or the latest Gimp), would probably make all our lives a little easier.
> We already have some of this courtesy of the left bar with the projects,
> instruments, etc.  Moving instrument windows, project notes, etc. into a
> dock on the right would be another step in that direction.
>
> Of course, in those other programs it's easy to see what the central focus
> of the window should be -- code or a picture.  For me the central focus of
> an LMMS window would be either the piano roll, the song window or both.
> And it's easy for me to make a suggestion like this when I haven't done Qt
> programming since porting a Qt2 app to Qt3 about 5 years ago, and barely
> have enough free time to use LMMS, much less rewrite its UI.
>
> Rob
>
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Jonathan Aquilina