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This is great. Makes these tools much more discoverable. I can help but notice the drop in plugin ui quality one you click the foss filter checkbox. Somethin
by gkhartman 9mo ago
This is great. Makes these tools much more discoverable. I can help but notice the drop in plugin ui quality one you click the foss filter checkbox. Something in me wants a foss plugin to come with a cool skin like the free ones do, but I know that's silly.
- dylan604 9mo agoIt really says something about designers when there's so few of them contributing to FOSS projects. It also says something about FOSS devs that they don't/can't find better UI for their projects. Especially for web based UIs where CSS isn't that hard to look at sites you want to emulate and get much much closer to a respectable UI.
- jpetso 9mo agoA not-so-insignificant number of FOSS developers are well able to make quality UIs, but decide to charge for their more polished creations. Between having to make a living somehow, and not reaping a whole lot of other personal benefits from open source audio development, it takes a very special kind of person to publish these contributions in the first place. Once they're published, generally with its UI defined in code by a developer person, they're not necessarily easy for a designer to edit. Nor is there much of a steady community around most of the plugins. So many are "publish, feature-complete enough, move on" kind of projects. As always, be the change you want to see in the world.
- Blackthorn 9mo agoSurge and vital have great UIs.