OpenColor based Ardour color theme

Community Ideas for Ardour
#8

Good catch! Thank you, I will look into this.

#9

Should be fixed now! :slight_smile:

#10

You recall correctly. If a color is not defined, Ardour assigns a random one every time the item is rendered. This makes it very obvious that a color is missing in the theme.

We call this harlequin debugging :slight_smile:

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#11

That’s it! I couldn’t remember what it was called to search for it, but at least I remembered who said it :wink:

Thanks

#12

Yup! Excellent! Well done. Looking forward to checking out the others.

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#13

I must say that I’ve always been very impressed with Ardour’s default theme (and UI design). Often times developers are not very good in designing a good UI, but I think Ardour is an exception (in my very humble opinion – I am not an expert at all, just a user). I think it looks great out of the box: clear, with good contrast, easy to see and spot all parts… Kudos to the team! So far, I never felt the need to try different themes.

That being said, I really like this theme. Maybe it’s just the different/new factor, but I will stick with it for a while, I think. Thanks for sharing your work!

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#14

I’ve fixed some more colors in the Rec view, didn’t test while recording. :stuck_out_tongue:

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#15

Very cool theme. i hope that included on ardour tree to get mantained for new versions!
thanks for sharing

#16

Very nice theme. However, the “No Align” warning blinks. It’s annoying because sidechain connections will prompt the warning when it is not really a problem. Under other color schemes the “No Align” merely lights up.

#17

Hi,
probably you’re referring to the foreground color, the color of the “No Align” text.

The background (red) is “blinking” in the other color themes as well:

I’ll think about it. :thinking:

[EDIT] I can’t do anything about it as long I use that “lighter red” as “alt” color. It seems Ardour is doing some calculation and invert, or select another, foreground color for the alert text while blinking. :roll_eyes:

#18

In the meanwhile you can disable blinking in Preferences > Appearance > Graphical User Interface > Blink Alert indicators ( The Ardour Manual ).

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#19

That did it. Thanks!

#20

O, cool stuff! A distinct&pleasant color decisions//

As a “G / E difference big idolater” I’d like to add some corrections to:
Preferences>Appearance>Colors>Transparency
editable region - to the left;
midi frame base - to the right
G_E_difference

…but everything is subjective :)) Thanks&good luck!

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#21

That sounds like a bug, would you mind reporting it, ideally with a way to reproduce the issue? Thanks in advance.

Not just alert text, but for (almost) all text there is a method contrasting_text_color . Based on the luminance of the background color, either black or white is used for the foreground text.

PS. For details search for “sRGB luminance” or have a look at the source

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#22

Thanks, nice suggestion. :+1:

I think I will implement it with a slight less transparency for Edit mode.

#23

Thanks for clarifying it, I knew something was going on but wasn’t able to find it. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

#24

Great theme !!
Are other downloadable themes for ardour known ?

#25

A couple of recent ones:

#26

It took a while to reproduce but I did narrow it down. And I am challenged by the bug tracker, and have never been able to login. However, one can reproduce the “No Align” warning by connecting the output of a track to a buss and also connect the output to a hardware output (keep it all either L or R to reproduce). For example, mono Track 1 left side goes to left side of mono buss 1. The “No Align” will blink if you also attempt to send Track 1 left side to any hardware output left side.
I don’t think this should raise an error but it does.

#27

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