3/21/2024 0 Comments Best mac theme for windows 10![]() do you mean you want floating plugins to be able to go behind the edit window?Ĭommand+= is fine. I read this and somehow still have no idea what you're talking about. Let myself off on another reaper-osx rant there by accident. again we lose the main menu and get given menus we already have access to elsewhere. If I'm tweaking levels in the floating mixer, I have no main menubar, just the mixer menu - that I can already call up from the master track button and right-click. If I'm tweaking a plugin, I have no menubar - just a "REAPER" menu with essentially nothing in it but "Prefs". Then to add to this, is the surprisingly irritating case of the main menubar disappearing or changing depending on the currently focussed window. Surely, rather than simply attempting to make floating window management identical between Mac and Windows, it makes much more sense to just give the users of each OS what they are used to and not worry that it might differ slightly?ĬH is right really, reaper doesn't conform to what we are used to on the Mac OS. I feel strangely confident in speaking for all of us OSXers on that one. just want rid of those stupid pins, and have a better window system - the normal Mac one. ![]() But us Mac users are used to that imo, and the benefits outweigh that tiny (non)inconvenience. Yeah, it's annoying - the only reason I can think of for Cockos not to do this in the standard Mac way, is that maybe they personally just don't like it - don't like that plug-ins might go on top of other open applications (as happens with plugins in PT and Logic for example). Logic uses this exact window system, but just packages it up in the dark border so it looks "cool." PT and other apps that actually use the OS floating window system have more options with this, clearly, as they need not worry about their floating windows going missing. This is what affects the mixer, because it's just like all the other floating windows and hence can't go beneath the main. They're just normal windows really so if the arrange wasn't stuck at the bottom of the stack, would go missing all the time and reaper would be completely unusable. the small title bar and close/minimise/maximise buttons). ![]() The edit/arrange window is (and has to be) permanently "pinned" as the bottom layer, because plug-ins and other floating windows don't make use of the OSX floating window system (e.g. Yes you can just use the toggle mixer action - but CH brings up a fundamental aspect of reaper on OSX - highlighting that reaper's window z-order stuff is kind of fundamentally strange imo, which is why we have this odd pin system instead of a properly automatic one. Isn't that a pro tools thing, and not a mac thing? can't you just press cmd+M ? by all means give it a go yourself! READ ALL THIS. Were there one, would it disappoint you? I would imagine so. So does Reaper need a 'Mac style theme'? Noooo. Why? Perhaps because its not been effective its not functionally suited to Reaper, it requires total design (which is not possible within the limitations of theming) and working in someone else's style is boring anyway. Meanwhile, a bunch of people have worked on Reaper themes with OSX style colours and buttons, but none AFAIK in this post-WALTER world. Its almost all about the total UX design, not the button drawing, which is by far and away 'the easy bit' (they even tell you how.) I've done the design for software that 100% fits the Apple design guidelines, that looks and feels exactly apple-esque. That all comes from the application, not the theming. I'm not saying you are, but comments like that are how it usually starts.Īmongst the cornerstones of the OSX interface style are: minimise the quantity of visible elements, make good use of whitespace / generous borders, simplify simplify simplify through paring down features and the use of contextual or interactive elements. Better don't make the impression to be one of those experts. If I were a themer in this community, I would never try and create a theme on request of any of these cats, they will piss on it anyway. You may say you are just telling your genuine opinion and you're free to do so, but what remarks like that actually do is demoralize the very folks you're asking to do you a favor.Įver so often we see those design experts jumping around here getting eye cancer from everything they see and knowing exactly how things should and should not be (but never I've seen any one of them present any work of their own, they are far too busy dissing the work of others). If it's a request, I suggest to not continue the strategy that gleems from the above comment. It seems you are requesting a theme with this thread, or are you testing the waters before going into creating that theme yourself? ![]() While I agree that Reaction doesn't look very Mac, a well meant tip before it's too late: From the bad taste and design errors, sore eyes.
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