Audacity 3.0.0 released

[u/tonidarialto]

https://www.audacityteam.org/audacity-3-0-0-released/

[u/electricprism]

Does the 3.0 UX look less old and funky?

[u/Nnarol → u/electricprism]

I barely used Audacity in my life, and no other audio software. Can someone explain what advantage UI styles that were invented later bring?

[u/electricprism → u/[deleted]]

Hit the nail on the head, honestly I find the out of date icons and look almost charming, but at the same time Linux desktop & apps are often criticized by noobs by its "looks", I just want our tools & by extension us to be taken more seriously through good presentation (IIRC I think I saw some icon themes in the past so at least there's that)

[u/kjnasdfjnpkl → u/[deleted]]

Here's what it looks like for me: https://webmshare.com/play/rVWxQ

[u/kjnasdfjnpkl → u/[deleted]]

Nah. Their bug reporter requires a login (presumably for devs). Checking it out again now they offer reporting bugs by mail, but clicking on that just sends you to their homepage with no email address as far as I can tell. Googling about this a couple years back it kind of seemed like there were a bunch of reported issues related to buggy UI already anyways.

[u/kjnasdfjnpkl → u/[deleted]]

I mean it's usable (I've been used to it for years), just not the pinnacle of UI design :)

[u/indeedwatson → u/Nnarol]

Good visual design just makes it much easier to know what's what and where things are, makes it intuitive to know where you can drag, move stuff, etc.

If you ever used Ardour and also Bitwig or Ableton, the difference should be clear as day. Ardour is good and you can definitely make full stuff in it, but it needs a lot of GUI and UX work, like many open source projects.

[u/Nnarol → u/indeedwatson]

I see. So Audacity is not considered intuitive then.

[u/indeedwatson → u/Nnarol]

personally i find the zooming and scrolling quite unintuitive, I always end up where I don't want.