> Really, UI Design is not that hard. The underlying technical > foundations are. When seeking is slow, or importing media takes half > an hour, all the fancy screenshots and buttons can be all bling and > shiny, and it still sucks.
I read an article once about how preceived performance is linked to GUI responsiveness. For instance, a Quad core rendering a file in 2 minutes will seem slower than a single core taking 8 minutes to render a file if the quad's GUI is locked up (with no user feedback) while rendering. So keeping the gui responsive is a must. Another thing I thought of once, is why can't we decouple the GUI from the underlying media handling code enough to make the gui multitasking. For instance, start a tape importing, and a project encoding, and then start editing another project. Sure there will be a performance hit, but with the systems we have available today, this should be possible (to some degree). Timothy _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@skolelinux.no https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
