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Comment by ne0phyte | Hacker News Reader

It looks nice, but, serious question, is there a reason why the UI in all screenshots is so dark and completely lacks contrast? I really couldn't look at black text or dark blue text on a dark background all day :/

Examples of what I mean:

- http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/pictures/overview1.p...

- http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/pictures/pluginmenu....

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I think the inspiration is the original theme of Jeskola Buzz http://cdn7.atwikiimg.com/buzzusers?cmd=upload&act=open&page...

Buzz is great. It's still being developed (the core as well as dedicated plugins) and doesn't really look like this anymore, being now very themable:

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=theme+site:jeskola....

More of a classical tracker than Radium, but it also has lots of unique features.

I thought there was some sort of CSS overlay or something gone awry. But, seeing some of the images with the pd window being all white makes it clear that the color scheme is just ridiculous.

I even thought the images might be corrupted, saved them and opened them locally haha. It really is an awful colorscheme and I wonder how anyone could think that's usable.

Unless they hardcoded the color scheme, this won't be an issue for long.

It's still weird to showcase a project with what is quite a strain to the eyes for most people.

Who knows, maybe the web team messed up with the image post processing step and coders aren't aware of the error yet.

Yeah, it's all editable. http://i.imgur.com/8pJMhCb.png

Ahh, finally something tasty.

Ah, nice. I was just looking through the github repo and found some config files for qt with color schemes. And yet my question stands: Why present a project like that?

Maybe it's good for live performances in darkened nightclubs.

Because the team is primarily developers, not designers? That's my best guess... its quite common amongst open source projects (although this is becoming increasingly rare).

The team is one person in this case. Project started in 1999.

Ze goggles, zey do nothing!

It's a bit like text editors before the "solarized" theme ;) Anyway looks like a good piece of software!

That alone makes the program entirely unusable.

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