As long as they are readable and understandable there is nothing to fix. 

John
As long as they are readable and understandable there is nothing to fix. 

+1
But if enough people want it, I guess the 'old' menu is already there, so maybe we could have both, an option for those who want the menu's as is, and one for those who don't. But I can't help thinking that it could be better to concentrate on other things

I'd have to see a vector style drop down window to know whether it would be a hill worth dying for.  But, if the vector style menu had friendly names for mono inputs and outputs, I'd be all over it.  

If you have used the latest of Microsoft products, you'd notice that menus have been replaced by ribbons and quick access toolbars. So as far as "Windows standard" goes, old style drop down menus are no longer it.

I hate the newest MS office because of its look and feel. Lets hope they don't copy it completely.

Since this seems to be drifting into possible encouragement for such "change for the sake of change"/"form over function" territory I would like to reiterate my opposition to altering the standard menus visually (which was rather glib).
 
When I am looking at those neat, dry and professional dropdowns I know I am looking at the true functions of a program. Not the candy coated, "user friendly" (those, BTW would be sarcastic air quotes if you could see me right now) graphical bobbles that seem to be eroding away at our beloved programs and websites.
 
I appreciate that Cake needs to appeal to the vapid visual generation who have been rewarded with endorphin fixes of interacting with the shiny coins, jewels, upset avians, etc, via their light boxes within virtual realities filled with princesses and neer do well dragons or Axis forces waiting to have their helmets popped off their noggins. There is however enough flash, dash and endorphin rushes provided by musical production and the main GUI is pretty "bling" filled as it is I think we can do without such frivolities added to the default menus.
 
If this is even for a second considered for development please make it an optional feature that can be disabled or much preferably, for the sake of not introducing a bunch of unnecessary graphical bugs to the core program for us doddering "dinosaurs", a completely separate add on that integrates with the core program (not the other way around). Let the video game kids deal with any fallout from glitches and leave us boring, but happy, menu dwellers work in peace.
 
Please?
 
kthxbye

Beepster
No... just, no.

SquareSpiral
Not a fan of customised menus - just becomes more brain drain as you switch between programs trying to remember the specifics of each one. Often becomes design for designs sake.

jb101

John T
Good god no. There's an OS-wide standard for menu form and function. A special Sonar-only menu system would be both a colossal waste of development time, and inevitably less complete and easy to use than the standardised Windows one.

What John T said.

....What THEY said. I wonder how people who are constantly finding fault and posting (YKWYA...)
get any work done....lol
 
Mel

Which DAW's have better looking menus?

I didn't take the OP as whining, but wanting the menus to have the same kind of classy GUI as Skylight. But yes, they really are different components and there's not much that can be done about it that's simple.

Anderton
I didn't take the OP as whining, but wanting the menus to have the same kind of classy GUI as Skylight. But yes, they really are different components and there's not much that can be done about it that's simple.

Nor did I really and I probably should have been less of a dink. I just really don't like the idea for my own personal system. I'd almost kind of like the option of having the Browser revert to more of a Windows shell when looking at files. It actually took me a while to realize that when browsing media in the Browser I was actually just looking at my Windows directories... which is dumb I know but I really did not know much about computers when I hopped on the Sonar train.