Oh well, since today seems to be a screenshots day, here is a recent screenshot of what Xounds preference pane looks:
As you can see, based on your feedback, I've killed the bubbles and attempted to make it more functional. While the top table looks pretty nice now, the bottom one contents look lonely. I am not sure if I should get back to the bubble metaphor for the bottom table to indicate the draggableness (what a word!) of each sound 'object'. Ideas?
All in all, we are moving very fast to the release, and I do beleive Xounds is going to be much improved in this update. First of all, as we stated before, you can mix-and-match any Xoundsets (or any AIFF files, for that matter) and arbitrary assign them to soundable actions. Second, we've added a bunch of new actions such as key press (typewriter key sound haxie requestors, this is for you!), mouse press, and a variety of drag-related sounds. Plus you'll be able to save it all to a new Xoundset, which is always a convenience.
if you'd like to beta test the remaining builds, drop me an email to slava@
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Personally it looked better the other way. I like the idea of having the sounds as objects that can be dragged. Try using some colors in it instead of grey. You could have it color coded by category of sound (window, menu, icons, etc basically the categories from 9).
Posted by: Matthew on August 12, 2003 7:11 AMI like the bubble metaphor myself and think using it on the bottom while keeping the top the same would be a good compromise. Perhaps do it the way safari's bookmark bar does it where the bubble is a rollover effect.
Posted by: chad on August 12, 2003 8:45 AMWell, mark me down as another of the "I liked it better the other way" crew. I think it looked a lot cleaner, whereas the new look is a lot more "unix-ey". Just a matter of taste, and while I love geeky stuff, i do think it looked more polished the other way.
Posted by: W. Ian Blanton on August 12, 2003 10:30 AMJust another vote for the bubble look. It seems to make the idea of dragging and dropping the sounds clearer. This new look sends me looking for an apply sound to action button rather that just thinking "Hum lets just drag it over"
Posted by: Sean on August 12, 2003 11:14 AMI liked the bubbles better.
But add some color, especially to the little buttons at the end of the rows.
Tastefully.
Posted by: David on August 12, 2003 1:03 PMNever going to make us all happy. like this one better, but then again I don't use Xounds...
Posted by: Etan on August 12, 2003 5:16 PM