Brandon - you locked my thread about lack of colors in X1C ??

Really ?  The thread was titled "XIC without Panups mods look...." 
 
With the message saying "hideous".
 
And you locked that ?
 
 
 

I guess it's going to be heavy duty moderating from now on.

That thread started with an unconstructive OP and was followed up with an **** reply baldly stating that Cakewalk's developers were incompetent. Of course it got locked. Here's hoping more threads of that nature get nuked. Including this one, frankly.

It would be nice to hear from cakewalk, if they are working on the colors for X2.
The software is kept dark, then the mixer is kept light. All fonts in bright blue. I find the color combination horrible.
It is also unclear, bus and track have the same background color. I'd like to have different background colors for groups and folders and buses.

Yeah, it's just rudeness. Doesn't say anything remotely useful. Your opening post was much the same. Absolutely nothing constructive, or worthy of a response, just a "DUDE THIS SUCKS" post.

Gregmang


John T - The comment that was posted as a reaction to my comment was

"Ain't it though? And from day one. What GUI design 101 class did these designers take - and flunk out of-? "

That was "lock" worthy ?

I do not think that it was lock worthy. Mind you, it might have been a little less likely to have been locked if there was even a hint that someone could have suggested another colour value instead...

Well, the people who run the board clearly thought it was lock worthy. So I think the OP should basically just get over it.

I think that the complaint(s) about the color scheme is legitimate since the colors are no longer customizable.  Hence, an attack on the Bakers may be the only means of getting their attention on the issue.  Many of us have been grumbling about the lack of customization in X1 (including the colors in particular), and yet nothing has been address in this respect by CW.  (I even come to believe the track widgets were not customizable it was so frustrating.)  After all, we waited patiently for "c" in which we had mounting expectations in our wait.  So, the compromise of (color) customization for larger widgets and buttons (and less working space) doesn't strike a happy balance.  This reminds me of the series of commercials with the "suit" offering kids toys and then takes them away or he gives a kid a toy but then the next kid gets an even better toy (might be on the a west coast only?).  Oh the irony.

Kind regards,


Living Room Rocker

You can use Panup's Mods to customize the colours ...but, yeah, it should have been customisable right from the get go...

I fail to see the connection between rudeness and rhetoric. The rude behavior on this forum just shows a widespread lack of class.

I think that the complaint(s) about the color scheme is legitimate since the colors are no longer customizable.  Hence, an attack on the Bakers may be the only means of getting their attention on the issue.  Many of us have been grumbling about the lack of customization in X1 (including the colors in particular), and yet nothing has been address in this respect by CW. 

How many people on the 'forum' have complained about colors? Maybe 30?

I don't remember seeing a post with hundreds of users complaining, maybe if Cakewalk held a poll of all the X1 users and found that a large percentage wanted color customization then you'd see something done quickly but I would not expect it to happen in the X1 cycle. It's a feature re-implementation request.

John T


That thread started with an unconstructive OP and was followed up with an **** reply baldly stating that Cakewalk's developers were incompetent. Of course it got locked. Here's hoping more threads of that nature get nuked. Including this one, frankly.

Hi John, Since you have the growing reputation of being argumentative (history telling) I will entertain your reasoning with a mutual response...

Do you mean "rude" as in CW's lack of a response to the ongoing outcry by long-standing and loyal user/customers going unanswered?

The above is a rhetorical question.  No response needed.

Kind regards,


Living Room Rocker

"I think that the complaint(s) about the color scheme is legitimate since the colors are no longer customizable."

It's not just that the colors are not customizable... it is also the fact that several of the colors that do have custom options don't actually customize... and it's difficult to prove to yourself that the changes you are applying aren't applying.

In the absence of any "effect" I became unsure of what I was attempting to "cause"... and so I tried repeatedly... looking around for some small detail that might have changed color.. thinking perhaps that I simply misunderstood the written description of the parameter.


For example; I played the custom track view colors game yesterday and figured out that I was foolish to try more than once to get something to stick.

Of course, I couldn't believe that the Bakers would leave a non functional custom color check box to appear as if it was functional... so I tried several times until I was quite sure that I had made a fool of myself.

Then I felt foolish for having felt optimistic.



best regards,
mike

Thanks Frank!

all the best,
mike

mike_mccue


"I think that the complaint(s) about the color scheme is legitimate since the colors are no longer customizable."

It's not just that the colors are not customizable... it is also the fact that several of the colors that do have custom options don't actually customize... and it's difficult to prove to yourself that the changes you are applying aren't applying.

In the absence of any "effect" I became unsure of what I was attempting to "cause"... and so I tried repeatedly... looking around for some small detail that might have changed color.. thinking perhaps that I simply misunderstood the written description of the parameter.


For example; I played the custom track view colors game yesterday and figured out that I was foolish to try more than once to get something to stick.

Of course, I couldn't believe that the Bakers would leave a non functional custom color check box to appear as if it was functional... so I tried several times until I was quite sure that I had made a fool of myself.

Then I felt foolish for having felt optimistic.



best regards,
mike

 
LOL!  Been there, done that. 
 
I use Panups mods now, which helps a lot but creates additional steps in-between upgrades of Sonar.   At this point in time one of his posts on the subject have generated over 1000 replies and viewed over 42,000 times.  Those are numbers worth looking at as a clue to how important color customization might be....