Morvejones
Hurry up already! 

Patience grasshopper.....

trtzbass
I gotta say...

The quality and the looks of Sonar's interface were a deciding factor in my choosing a DAW.
Having said that, if we're going into skinning Sonar, can we make it look like this please?
http://www.houseofwhiteti...erial/wt_imperial.html

(Sorry I don't know how to link an image)

Wow, now THAT's what I'm talking about! Beautiful. Thanks for that link.

In Boston we officially declare spring round about May. Thats when it gets warm enough :) So you will have to wait!
 
BTW just to set realistic expectations, the first cut of themes is likely going to be a few pre-packaged themes rather than being a fully customizable. We do have plans for that however but even so full blown theme design is not going to be for the faint of heart. Designing a theme requires quite a bit of graphic design experience if you want to build one from scratch.

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
In Boston we officially declare spring round about May. Thats when it gets warm enough :) So you will have to wait!
 
BTW just to set realistic expectations, the first cut of themes is likely going to be a few pre-packaged themes rather than being a fully customizable. We do have plans for that however but even so full blown theme design is not going to be for the faint of heart. Designing a theme requires quite a bit of graphic design experience if you want to build one from scratch.

Thanks for the update. Please tell me we'll have an option to nix blue and gray as one of the 1st pre-packaged themes! :)

John T. said:  <<but I remember someone pointing out several years ago how useful it would be for sight-impaired users,>>>
 
This is my big hope for UI improvements, as I am getting older and my eyesight is fading.  High contrast options please.  Not pure black and white, like Windows boring high-contrast options, but options for lighter backgrounds with dark fonts, buttons and other elements, etc.  As it is, there are too many ambiguous shades of gray upon gray and other hard to read colors.
 
Help the Geezers!

I looking forward to the themes too. Not because I'm a "geezer" even though I am its because I'm no fan of the gray either. 
 
Besides we were promised this a very long time ago. Shortly after X1 was released. 
 
 

Agree to all the above. Look at these examples from a Reaper skin that trtzbass posted. Also BIGGER brighter fonts for markers.

As Noel said, drawing UI from scratch is tedious task. You don't want to do it unless you have 100-400 hours extra time for the project.
Been there, done that... 
 
 

 
Instead of drawing everyting from scratch you can easily tweak colors in Photoshop or similar. To get started, import UI files to Photoshop, open Saturation: check [X] Colorize, then tweak hue. Add Levels layer etc. to finetune colors and maybe add some dirt.  However, you have to be careful because money can't buy good taste:

Unofficial customizing
 

dbmm001
Agree to all the above. Look at these examples from a Reaper skin that trtzbass posted. Also BIGGER brighter fonts for markers.

Nice aesthetic professional look [SPLAT also have that] but with brighter colors where really needed. 

ok on the brighter color
ed lights and doodads but DUDE!  It's STILL Grey!  Battleship Grey!  
 
Would be nice to have slightly larger fonts for my F'n old eyes but don't really see Reaper is any better... it's just different with a darker grey.