I'll again put in a strong vote for maximizing (or at least being acutely
aware of) 640x480 (VGA) resolution for csounds.com. I'll bet that VGA is the
preferred resolution - by far - for users over 60 years of age.

But most specifically, the top menu line does not display correctly (that
is, drop down windows don't) at either 640x480 or 800x600, due to the length
of some of the windows. These windows (on Windows IE) display *off the top
of the screen* if/when they hit screen bottom.

This is a minor issue, but it renders csounds.com fairly useless for me at
resolutions that I greatly prefer to use.

Art Hunkins

P.S. David knows all this already; I'm just putting it out here for others
to comment on.

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Akbari" 
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 6:46 PM
Subject: [Cs-dev] Presentation of Csound5 on cSounds.com


> Hello gentlemen,
>
> The purpose of this email is to humbly ask suggestions / requests et al
> for how the pending release of Csound5 should appear on cSounds.com.
>
> As you can probably see, the current status of cSounds.com attempts to
> gear users at Csound 4, as it is the "current official release". Since
> this will be exponentially less the case up until release, my question
> is how and in what ways should Csound5 for all platforms be presented
> at cSounds.com ?
>
> I am aware of Victor's installer for Mac OS X, Michael's Installer for
> Windows / Istvan's .zip archives, and John ffitch's Linux installer +
> Istvan's architecture specific gzipped tarballs.
>
> If Anthony could email the list or get at me privately concerning the
> status of OS 9 I would really appreciate it as it is because of him
> that I was able to get a small network of legacy Macintosh computers to
> enjoy the fruits of Csound5. I hope this joy can be afforded to others
> through cSounds.com.
>
> --> General Questions:
>
> 1) What files should be downloaded and mirrored / hosted on cSounds.com
> in addition to SourceForge ? I would like this type of redundancy in
> case either cSounds.com or SourceForge is temporarily unavailable for
> whatever reason, in which case users can go to whichever available
> resource is accessible.
>
> 2) What things about Csound5 do you, as developers feel is significant
> to the Csound community at large pending the release of version 5 ?
> What information should they be receiving that you feel is important ?
>
> 3) What frontends / extra tools are people using with the advent of
> Csound5 ? Surely there are many more university projects in the same
> vein as Cabel that would be extremely useful for end users. Any
> undergraduate / graduate students doing Csound related work can also be
> highlighted - in fact Dr. B has discussed the idea of having a
> "Csounder of the Week/Month" what do you guys think about this feature
> ? In order to implement it correctly we would need but not limited to:
>
> * Picture
> * Bio
> * Short piece audio / .csd file
> * Commentary / link to aux site
>
> 4) The Csound People page is woefully out of date. I would appreciate
> users reporting any broken links they find as well as any additions
> they feel should be there to this list or the general Csound list. This
> page is in dire need of revision.
>
> 5) Any other information you think others should know ! Also comments
> are **ALWAYS** welcome and appreciated concerning the INTERFACE of the
> website and the accessibility of all your hard work. Suggestions on a
> preferred resolution ? Right now it is optimized to >= 800x600 pixels
> although I can see it causes some minor problems on browsers rendering
> at 640x480. Although I am very much interested in compatibility with
> coarse resolution, what is a good maximum to shoot for ?
>
>
> Csound is the ultimate realization of computer music software because
> of the talent and hard work of developers such as yourselves. The
> community benefits greatly from all of your contributions; you should
> be proud. Please help me to spread the work you have worked so hard and
> for so long on. It will undoubtedly bring joy to many people - I will
> personally try my best to make sure it does so to as many people as
> possible.
>
> TIA,
> -David
>
>
>
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