Good video, very much worth watching despite the length. New UI will look something like this:
with an option for a more classic look.
Looks like an enourmous UX improvement too, and a rewrite to QT and eliminating a lot of technical debt will make development faster.
It’s looking freaking gorgeous. Tentacrul is the bomb. His work on MuseScore is arguably the best UX/UI in the FOSS world. It even beats most if not all of the proprietary alternatives in the same category.
He also did a great tribute video to Tim Smith / Cardiacs. Was already in my good books, went beyond with that one.
I wish he would bring his skills to freecad 😂😂 it is needed!
I actually like FreeCAD and its UI a lot and the recent improvements are huge! Yes it has its quirks but for a tool as versatile as FreeCAD they are acceptable.
It’s definitely improving! I hope they also improve the default shortcuts because having to reach to almost the last key on the other side of the keyboard (k) for the single most used constraint is pretty nuts while there are almost unused closer keys lol.
He made a comment in the video that people have been running versions of audacity that have not been updated in 10 years. I went and had a look at the version I had installed. Yep.
I actually assumed it did have an auto update feature and they’re just wasn’t any updates.
Now when will Gimp get the same treatment… I know some people like it but I just can’t. I’d rather use Affinity Photo via
protona custom wine version (ElementalWarriorWine)I usually go with Krita. Not because of the UI, i just learnt to use it first and like it. Or Inkscape for vector graphics.
Krita I tried for while, but I’ve been spoiled by Affinity Photo’s selection tool. Can’t use path tool or magic wand anymore
Agreed. Krita is a better program for print design. The fact that it has a full range of color models built in is powerful stuff. Not just CMYK, but LAB and many others. But GIMP has its advantages for some tasks if you never leave the realm of RGB.
Gimp is a misbegotten, irredeemable piece of UI trash. The fact that it’s been around this long and gets egregiously worse with each iteration is baffling to me.
I mean, it in a very literal way the parent project of GTK, and therefore indirectly responsible for GNOME, so that kind of checks out. I use it quite often though, and you can learn it to do what you wanna do.
Hey I don’t want to come off the wrong way, couple decades ago gimp was very useful to me, when I was trapped in a company that wouldn’t pay a penny for any kind of software, and on the FOSS side of things choices for imaging applications were sparse at best. Gimp was a lifesaver at times.
But it always been an interface disaster. I spent decades doing UI/X alongside other development, and gimp has always been a piece of shit designed by a programmer with the toxic “what it works” mentally.
Ah, didn’t know it worked with Proton!
I have an Affinity license that’s just been collecting dust while I use the Photopea web app.
It does! Works pretty well even. I followed this guide: https://github.com/seapear/AffinityOnLinux
That logo is fucking terrible. Cult minimalism produced a red sperm and a disconnected semicircle. It reads as nothing.
The ‘classic look’ in dark mode still puts 90% of the interface in light mode.
No other complaints.
In the video, Tantacrul shows how it matches with the aesthetic of the rest of Muse’s icons…but it kind of doesn’t.
He (correctly) insisted on keeping the headphone iconography, but the rest of Muse’s icons are letters. UltimateGuitar’s imp ears plus arrow makes a G one, then the others are abstract geometric T for Tonebridge, a weird S for MuseScore, a really bad circle/diagonal line for an A for audio.com and two verticle lines and a circle for an H for MuseHub, whatever the hell that is. And then Audacity’s headphones. Going for stylistic resemblance…for the logos of websites, phone apps and desktop apps that probably won’t be seen together. Plus in a lot of places MuseScore’s Mu with fermata mark is still in use.
Honestly, the comparison with the rest of those icons was the only part I respected. It’s a suite of cult minimalist bullshit. Which still doesn’t explain how nobody went, “that’s a sperm.”
Or at least, “why isn’t it blue or yellow?”
Doesn’t look like a sperm to me, it looks like broken headphones.
The magenta is also…it’s like, if the Firefox logo was suddenly green. That’s not Audacity’s color.
I’ve long been hoping for a FOSS alternative to Garage Band. I think LMMS is the closest but it lacks live music recording, its UI is miserable, and the last release was 2020. It would be great if someone could merge Audacity and LMMS.
This is pretty high on my list of coding projects that I would support if I didn’t need to spend most of my time serving capital.
i literally just found out i want something like this too.
I wonder what happened to it’s forks, Tenacity & Audacium
Tenacity is still active
I remember that there was an issue with mainline audicity, like they put malware in it or something? And that’s why it was forked?
Holy shit yes. Also while we’re at it please guys add an option to put the timeline in just seconds instead of minutes:seconds
OMG! I read that as Full AI Overhaul.
They are adding “AI” features in a collaboration with Intel, but luckily they’re minor additions like ML based noise reduction
In other words tasks that “AI” is actually good for, not attempting to generate your music or apply some kind of “magic filter”.
Also subtitling with whisper, which is awesome
This isn’t new, the features have been in the app for a while now
Hope the new UI fixes the FFT view lagging.
should, since it ports all the Ui from wxwidgets to qt
I’ve actually switched to Ocenaudio for what little I do and have been happy.
It’s not open source, sadly…
Damn that looks clean.
All the changes seem awesome, looking forward to trying out version 4
cos the ui is why people abandoned it… :picard:
the audacity (sorry :D)
They had to give us something for all that telemetry to keep their entirely educated and tech savy user base on board. 🙄
Full UI overhaul?! I can’t believe they had the audacity to do this!
i mean they were using the rather old wxwidgets
I’m not criticising. I just wanted to play with the word audacity
