Idea for DAWS - context sensitive tools like Office 2007
If anyone has used Office 2007, you know how less cluttered the interface is because the tools are context-sensitive. For example, you don't see the toolbar for editing charts until you have a chart selected. When you're working with shapes and have a shape selected, the 'shape options' toolbar appears.
I would like to see these kind of features in future DAWs. Click an audio file in your project, and the tools and menus change to audio-specific operations. Same with a midi clip. Less confusion when you need to find the right tool...
The idea of the 'ribbon' in Office 2007 is something I'd like to see not only in DAWs, but in all types of software in the future.
I don't know... maybe I'm just spouting shit...
Discuss..?
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