SynthMakerbones ·
I think that the choice of white for poly connections is poor. White looks like no colour at all. To me it looks like its either inactive or unselected or something. Maybe orange would work better. Just a thought.
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jorge ·
bones wrote: I think that the choice of white for poly connections is poor. White looks like no colour at all. To me it looks like its either inactive or unselected or something. Maybe orange would work better. Just a thought.
Well, visually white means all the separate R G B components are there and each R G B colour is in fact a frequency just like sound. In sound white noise means that all frequencies are there in an analogy to the visual meaning of white. For me white means all components are there which is the case of the poly connectors. Blue means that only one component is there, for me it is a cold colour and the analogy is that the separate channels have cooled down into one.
stefan ·
jorge wrote: bones wrote: I think that the choice of white for poly connections is poor. White looks like no colour at all. To me it looks like its either inactive or unselected or something. Maybe orange would work better. Just a thought.
Well, visually white means all the separate R G B components are there and each R G B colour is in fact a frequency just like sound. In sound white noise means that all frequencies are there in an analogy to the visual meaning of white. For me white means all components are there which is the case of the poly connectors. Blue means that only one component is there, for me it is a cold colour and the analogy is that the separate channels have cooled down into one.
Make everyone happy by having customizable colors 🙂 The default can be white if you ask me, but if someone else wants to change the colors because they feel more comfortable in another color scheme, let them. Must be quite simple to add to the options dialogues.
jorge ·
stefancrs wrote: Make everyone happy by having customizable colors 🙂 The default can be white if you ask me, but if someone else wants to change the colors because they feel more comfortable in another color scheme, let them. Must be quite simple to add to the options dialogues.
I though of a very quick to implement and simple way to have customizable connectors, not just the colours but the symbols too. It would use the MGUI and the GUI components to define it. Wouldnt that make it more confusing to read schematics posted by other users showing their own custom connectors with their own custom colours? For example imagine someone made white mean mono and blue poly and posted a schematic.
stefan ·
jorge wrote: stefancrs wrote: Make everyone happy by having customizable colors 🙂 The default can be white if you ask me, but if someone else wants to change the colors because they feel more comfortable in another color scheme, let them. Must be quite simple to add to the options dialogues.
I though of a very quick to implement and simple way to have customizable connectors, not just the colours but the symbols too. It would use the MGUI and the GUI components to define it. Wouldnt that make it more confusing to read schematics posted by other users showing their own custom connectors with their own custom colours? For example imagine someone made white mean mono and blue poly and posted a schematic.
Hm, well, as long as you're not talking about using custom connectors and connections in the schematic, just changing the local options, all that would be confusing is the screenshots. Unless you ofcourse fix some activex component so that people wouldn't need to post bitmapped screenshots... 🙂
Tom7777 ·
Wouldnt that make it more confusing to read schematics posted by other users showing their own custom connectors with their own custom colours?
Very true it would make things confusing and i think things are great as they currently are, i do think that being able to change the wire colors just for grouping sets within a connector type is a good idea though -
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malc ·
I'm not keen on the idea of customizable connector types or colours. I think it would make things confusing. True, if it was an install setting then it wouldn't affect the schematics but there would be captures posted with all sorts of different schemes and I don't think that would be helpful.
I wonder how big a deal this really is in the grand scheme of things? Also, how far do you take things in terms of customisability?
I think that in most cases you can find a good solution that works for the majority. Bones is not a big fan of the white connectors which is fair enough. If everyone thinks the same way then we've clearly got something wrong. I'm not sure the answer to such issues is always "let the user choose".
stefan ·
malc wrote: I'm not keen on the idea of customizable connector types or colours. I think it would make things confusing. True, if it was an install setting then it wouldn't affect the schematics but there would be captures posted with all sorts of different schemes and I don't think that would be helpful.
I wonder how big a deal this really is in the grand scheme of things? Also, how far do you take things in terms of customisability?
I think that in most cases you can find a good solution that works for the majority. Bones is not a big fan of the white connectors which is fair enough. If everyone thinks the same way then we've clearly got something wrong. I'm not sure the answer to such issues is always "let the user choose".
To be frank, I don't care which color it is as long as it's easy enough to distinuish between different types and doesn't look ugly.
Tom7777 ·
Well i think the current color scheme is great, everyones opinions are mixed with everything so its always hard to keep everyone happy, i would indeed find things very confusing if you suddenly changed the color scheme so i hope you don't. With my wire idea if you don't like the sound of color change then maybe you could sort of do it and have it so the user can pick a color but it will appear as a dashed overlay so the blue or green ect main color will always be there and maybe you could limit the colors to ones you thought worked or even just have a black overlay but the user can just just select different styles like dots and dash ect.
bones ·
I'm sure you are all quite used to it but it made things a lot less obvious to me. e.g. Not realising that white actually meant something probably aided my not getting the Poly to Mono thing as white didn't seem to be anything in particular, whereas I'm 100% certain that I would never have tried to connect an orange output to a blue input.
Shifrin ·
stefancrs wrote: To be frank, I don't care which color it is as long as it's easy enough to distinuish between different types and doesn't look ugly.
That's pretty much how I feel on the matter.
Shif.
skOre ·
Shifrin wrote: stefancrs wrote: To be frank, I don't care which color it is as long as it's easy enough to distinuish between different types and doesn't look ugly.
That's pretty much how I feel on the matter.
Shif.
Yep, I second that!
Nu Audio Science ·
Thirded
GaryG ·
fourthed.
i think the colouring of mains wiring in the UK is dumb (live is brown? neutral blue?!) but i wouldn't dream of replacing it with my own scheme, too confusing for others.
.g
platinumears ·
fifthed 🙂
Nu Audio Science ·
I must be getting perverted in me old age i thought you had typed "Filthed" 🙂
platinumears ·
probably that too!
Nu Audio Science ·
😉
db ·
platinumears wrote: fifthed 🙂
Next in line after 'ears! (Sixeth?) 🙂
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