There has been a lot of "opinionating" on the upcoming version of PowerSDR 2.0 that has the feature of being able to graphically represent the fixed control surfaces of the console. Whether or not you like the "artist" rendition of the console "skins" or not seems to be a popular topic with equal and passionate feelings on both side of the debate but in reality, changing the look and feel of PowerSDR v2.0.0 to anything other than what it is currently, and debating it further is a moot point.
The reason it is moot is twofold. First, FlexRadio has already decided that PowerSDR should have the ability to define the fixed control surfaces graphically and that there would be a new look to PowerSDR. That business decision is not going to be undone since it was made almost a year ago and significant development resource went into the program logic to do so, so it is not a negotiable point. Second, in their infinite wisdom, FlexRadio Systems engineered this capability with enough ease and flexibility to be able to create your own presentation of the console. Even a user with a rudimentary knowledge of using a graphics editor (and I resemble that remark) can make what ever skin they like. If you don't like some aspect of the skin, change it yourself - it is easy to do. There are more important and *much* better uses of developer's time than making the new PowerSDR look like the old one. It is easy to deduce that a representation of the old console is not going to come out of FlexRadio for PowerSDR v2.x.x, so if you want to retrograde back to the past, then it will have to be up to some enterprising ham to create a "Clinical Betty" skin that looks like the old console. I also suspect there will be some enterprising forward thinking hams out there that will create some new really cool looking presentations for the PowerSDR console. I am really looking forward to using those. While it is not widespread, complaining about how the representations look, belittling the graphic's designers work and being overly critical without providing constructive criticism is not beneficial to the evolutionary process or the on going improvement of PowerSDR and does not serve the betterment of SDR software in general. There is conservatively a few hundred thousand man-hours of software development that have been put into PowerSDR over its lifetime, for which everyone gets for free. Show the developers some respect in this regard - they have earned it several times over. You really do not want to piss off the people who have contributed to PowerSDR without compensation, so as they say, "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth". Be thankful at this time of thanksgiving. You should be showing your appreciation positively to Eric and the rest of the team who have made SDRs possible for us all. Thank you Eric, Bob, BobT, Frank, Beppe, Matt, Ed and the others who I have forgotten to name. The other debate seems to be over CPU utilization. Yes, it does take additional resource to load a more graphically rich application like PowerSDR v2.0.0 vs. PowerSDR 1.x. If your PC is "long in the tooth" the additional resource load might not be negligible. On my Core2 machine it is negligible. Even those who want the "original skin" back, it is still going to take the same amount of computer resources as any of the other skins so reverting back to the older look will make no difference. That is the price of progress. If it doesn't work with your PC to your liking, then stick with the v1.18.3 version or upgrade your PC. It is what it is. Also, this thread has probably run its course and technically it belonged on the FlexEdge reflector because PowerSDR v2.0.0 is still alpha software, so lets get back and focus on topics that are more appropriate for this reflector. I hope everyone in the US is enjoying their holiday weekend. I am off to make another turkey sandwich :-) -Tim ----- W4TME _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
