Something nice to look at

A totally gutted & customizable interface. Skin / button / color choices. Something nice to look at. Battleship gray ("Old Ironsides" is tired & needs a facelift.

When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.

It's Gray for a reason, if you're trying to concentrate on color correction and the finer details of your edit, you don't need anything distracting you. The most important thing to look at is what's in your canvas & viewer.
That said, FCP and the pro-apps in general are in need of a massive UI overhaul. There is a distinct lack of uniformity and that needs to change. This isn't just cosmetic, Color, while being very powerful, needs dramatic UI changes to make it a lot more useable to the regular user (inclusion of sliders, removal of the need for a 3-button mouse configuration - even though there's ways round it)
It could go on and on, I would think that an update will follow after Snow Leopard and Quicktime X, both of these will go a long way to re-writing the core of FCP, you'd like to hope that UI would follow.

This is a loose topic because it requires one school of thought to accept another.

In another thread I mentioned my use of desktop wallpaper as a means of style motivation. There were a lot of people who disagreed but there were a lot that didn't.

Grey maybe a good color for a colorist but for an editor (strictly cut man) that UI may not be the best. Grouping certain types of functions by color may be more efficient to some while larger buttons and text without a color may be more efficient for another.

The UI should be customizable for each persons needs. Final Cut being a multi-use program may also need multi-UI for those who narrow their use of this NLE to a particular function. Especially in network assembly line style production.

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