Notwithstanding the slow start (Quick Start starts slow? Ha! Irony.), I am enjoying the paradigm. It is similar to that in the newer Internet browsers.
Not only do the projects have a name (Oh. Which is the later version? Test_C or Test_3?), now there is an icon to jog my memory (Ah, that one has more going on, so that one is probably the latest).
It's good. On balance I find it speeds my workflow, and that's always welcome.
Just wanted to let the Bakers know.
 

All the thumbnails look the same to me, it's too slow and too many issues stated in these forums. I would like to like it but it appears to be yet another half baked feature thrown into the UI (to add to the growing list) that needs to be finished off later. Sorry that's just my opinion.

I like it too.

Doktor Avalanche
All the thumbnails look the same to me, it's too slow and too many issues stated in these forums. I would like to like it but it appears to be yet another half baked feature thrown into the UI (to add to the growing list) that needs to be finished off later. Sorry that's just my opinion.

 
That's my opinion, too.

I've been told patience is a virtue. I suspect the Start Screen's fate will be the same as Mix Recall, which was shaped over a few months by user feedback;

Anderton
I've been told patience is a virtue. I suspect the Start Screen's fate will be the same as Mix Recall, which was shaped over a few months by user feedback;

No doubt..
In the meantime all the other UI legacy issues hang around needing to be fixed.. In those instances patience is an onslaught :) Ah well been here before..again and again :)

Hey, the Concrete Limiter got fixed. Fixes have been made to staff view. Lots of old annoying things have been fixed lately. Just sayin'...

I like it, in design terms. It's just too slow for heavy use right now. I'm in and out of different projects all day, and when I had it switched on, I could close a project and load another from the file menu and start working before it even popped up.
 
I'm only guessing here, of course, but my sense of what happened is this: remember how we got the update that didn't contain anything much other than the start screen, right at the end of the month, and then we got a really big update effectively a couple of weeks early after that? I think the start screen was rushed out so Cakewalk wouldn't have to reach the end of a month without delivering something.
 
I can understand the reasoning, if that was the case, but myself, I'm not bothered about updates being on some arbitrary schedule like that.
 
So yeah, basically, I look forward to turning the start screen back on once it's developed a bit more. And speed is the paramount issue for me. If it's slower than using the file menu, then there's not a lot of point to it, day to day. Though I do like having update notifications on it. Like I say, the design is good.

Anderton
Hey, the Concrete Limiter got fixed. Fixes have been made to staff view. Lots of old annoying things have been fixed lately. Just sayin'...

Only after persistent moaning! Running out of energy :)

Oh no! Cakewalk would never fix anything if you didn't heroically fight for us all. Please don't stop.