Sorry, but I can't work in Tungsten. I simply don't see anything. It looks similar to Sonar pre-skylight with tons of toolbar buttons. Here come the comparison pics. 
http://imgur.com/a/vk15u
 
The cluttered track controls and control bar, lack of track colours, lack of borders and sections - all that render it completely unusable for me. All I see in the console are meters and the top relatively clean part. Everything else is a decorated new-year-tree LED-like mess. And those laser red dots everywhere instead of Arm for record markers. The FX Bins in the pro-channel are still blue by the way.
Overall, Mercury is sure not ideal, too, but I can at least work in it.
 
And yes, I agree, SONAR needs an ARTIST. And the SkyLight needs a rework too, with attention to CONSISTENCY with actual use cases, not just in colours among all elements.

This thread may have run its course. I'm seeing some personal attacks here and I'm close to locking this thread. Tone it down or have it locked. 

Don't lock it. The powers that be have let the other threads run their course and this one is interesting. People are talking about a new feature. Those on the fringe are easily identified and have some good points to make. If YOU don't like the thread then don't read it.
 
The customizable interface was a feature many of us have been longing for since it was announced. I don't think it was delivered as promised and want to see some discussion about it. One new colour scheme does not equal a customizable UI.

Helene Kolpakova
Sorry, but I can't work in Tungsten. I simply don't see anything. It looks similar to Sonar pre-skylight with tons of toolbar buttons. Here come the comparison pics. 
http://imgur.com/a/vk15u
 
The cluttered track controls and control bar, lack of track colours, lack of borders and sections - all that render it completely unusable for me. All I see in the console are meters and the top relatively clean part. Everything else is a decorated new-year-tree LED-like mess. And those laser red dots everywhere instead of Arm for record markers. The FX Bins in the pro-channel are still blue by the way.
Overall, Mercury is sure not ideal, too, but I can at least work in it.
 
And yes, I agree, SONAR needs an ARTIST. And the SkyLight needs a rework too, with attention to CONSISTENCY with actual use cases, not just in colours among all elements.

Yea, I just tried to use it on my real system and it just blinds me. no joke. But I'm in a room about 75% dark.
I need more definition. BUT it's not a big deal as I just set it back. I would like to see a full darker color palette of Mercury moving away from any pastels and but with full track lane colors...

Sorry John.

I think the design was pretty well thought out for a first attempt at an alternate darker theme. It's actually hilarious that anyone thinks a programmer did the design. It would be a complete nightmare if that was the case. :-) For something so subjective, the informal percentage of likes compared to dislikes is surprisingly high, so if I was CW, I would consider it a big success. Hopefully they can figure out a way to colorize the few remaining controls that they weren't able to for this attempt. I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with when they have the ability to do it themselves. Should be pretty funny.

I said ugly...
As a small example...

If this was done by an artist... CW needs a lead artist to tell the artist what to fix....

Dave000
I said ugly...
As a small example...


If this was done by an artist... CW needs a lead artist to tell the artist what to fix....

I have looked on two screens and mine does not look like yours. Have you looked at the calibration of your screen?

karhide

Dave000
I said ugly...
As a small example...


If this was done by an artist... CW needs a lead artist to tell the artist what to fix....

I have looked on two screens and mine does not look like yours. Have you looked at the calibration of your screen?

So you see that's your problem... if it looks wrong on mine and I only copy and paste it, you should see it the way you see it on yours and not mine... And I looked at it on 3 systems with 6 monitors, yes some are a bit different BUT the differents between "the colors" is always off...

Not my problem because my UI looks pretty good but your screen shot looks set like it has been processed in some other way. Have you reset all your settings back to the default?