[10.5.0] Transport Panel (F2) still horrible

JSL · September 13, 2019, 12:37pm

mozart:

Gr8h8m:

jimknopf:

I can’t complain about the new transport panel,

not only because the new one fits into my monitor screen without any problems, if I want it

but also because I mostly use shortcuts instead of slowing down my workflow with F2 and then all the mouse clicks

So I have a hard time understanding the intensity of the discussion…

What resolution are you running? Try it on different sizes of laptop for example. To get it to squeeze into a 1080p resolution width you have to disable/hide half the panels functions. Whichever way you cut it its just horrible GUI design.
Or your other suggestion is that its ok because you don’t use it? Try and understand that there are many different valid usage cases which are different to your own.

This!!! The “having to disable / hide bits from the panel in order to make it fit” is just ridiculous!

This is one point of view.

I think that designer decision was absolutely oposite of it. It was smthng like “how to make slim panel where everyone can put what he needs”. If you use kind of SW seriously you will have to minimaze use of mouse and learn shortcuts. At this point, you dont need so much stuff in transport panel.
This idea is result of what you can see in cubase from SX version (I dont know the previous versions).

Also every piece of sw is made with some intention how to use it, and cubase seems really great with versatility and customizability ( I know that there are people who would like to burn me alive for this words). But at the end there is no possible way how to make sw which fits everyone, but every sw has some philosophy behiend it, how to use it with efficiency and if You didnt follow, it will not works well for you.

I move to Cbs 10 from Cbs 6.5 and it was shock that changes of appearance in main window, but after few months, Im really happy for all this changes.

Things doesnt have to be perfect to be used for serious works. I have lot of HW equipment which doesnt works exactly how it should, but We dont live in perfect world for everyone - thats it.