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Originally Posted by Lokasenna
Nobody should have to tweak the theme just to see all of the information being presented. Showing more information/controls, yes, but we're talking about things that are right there and effectively invisible to a decent number of people.
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But nobody needs to. The default themes are usable (as ugly as they are imho) and give all the information one needs to have. And if they don't it's just a plus that you can change them, which most other DAWs don't offer and with those DAWs, it is as less guaranteed as it is with Reaper, that you have all the information you need at a glance.
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Originally Posted by rst
Now I understand why Reaper is so often criticized about UI.
Devs are stuck with winamp. No matter what they do with UI - result is winamp.
All that complicated, overengeneered WALTER/scripting thing allows to do only one thing - variations of winamp.
On the optimistic side, if users will continue making too much noise about UI devs may listen and change something...
For example create another programming language to make even more variations of winamp.
Btw, those fancy skins didn't help winamp to retain popularity. History may repeat with Reaper too.
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This is something I really doubt, because there has always been a certain continuity in the way Reaper evolved. E.g. you are still able to load projects from Reaper v1.xx, whereas file formats for Cubase projects for example were changed and at some point there was neither a way to import or load old projects nor was there a program to convert them.
Secondly, I also doubt, that a DAW, be it Reaper, Protools or whatnot gains or loses popularity because of its skin.
Many of the features Reaper offers were induced by users.
So, if you don't need e.g. theming, spectral editing, automation, MIDI or notation editing or whatever, just leave it alone. It's there for people who need and want it and the fact that many people use all these things speaks for itself.
-Data