I'm writing a review of the latest Guitarix and I have some suggestions for the developers. I'll be rather blunt here, but my intent is not to diss any of the fine work already put into this excellent app. However, for all its internal polish its UI still needs some low-level attention. So here we go:
The text needs consistency throughout the application. For example, here are the errors just in the About panel: "Aplication" should be spelled "application", it does not need capitalized in English. The grammar in that sentence is broken and would read much better as "... the marvelous Faust compiler by Yann Orlary and his team at GRAME" (with the link for GRAME of course). A period should be added after the URL following Albert Graef's name. "guitarix 0.12.0svn use jack_capture..." should be corrected to "uses jack_capture". "it will allways" should be "It will always...". The same thing at "for impulse response it use...", it should be "For impulse response convolution it uses..." and brackets should be placed around the URLs for Kjetil and Fons. A period should follow Fons's URL. Finally, "authors:" and "home:" should read "Authors:" and "Home:".
Proceeding to the main panel we find more of the same, with inconsistent capitalization throughout the whole panel. Why are the tone controls labeled Bass, Middle, and Treble, while the volume controls are labeled "in/level" and "out/master" ? I suggest using capitalization consistently, so that "preamp" becomes "Preamp" and so forth. Also, "anti aliase" might read better as "anti-alias", "amplifier" ought to be "Amplifier", and so on.
In the slooper pane the record and playback buttons are mismatched with the first button (the green square), giving the buttons a rather clunky appearance as though they were pasted in as an afterthought.
In the About menu neither the Show Tooltips nor the Help items do anything. Am I missing something or are those items broken ?
In the Options menu, why does the Meterbridge item summon five instances of the meters ? In the same menu we find the problem with orthographical consistency in the jack_capture dialog.
It's "MIDI", not "Midi". It's an acronym, and in English acronyms are printed in all caps. Yes, the rule isn't always observed, but that isn't a good excuse, at least not for a grammar-guardian like myself.
Again, be consistent, don't use Midi in one place and MIDI in another.It has been my experience that some developers get pissed off when they receive this sort of information. They either do not care about such detail or they feel they don't need told how to write in English. Hopefully the Guitarix team will take this criticism as a user's contribution towards making the program even more professional. It already sounds fantastic - I've been making a set of presets I'll contribute to the community - and I would simply like it to appear as good as it sounds.
Btw, I realize that window resizing and font issues may drive the decision to use upper or lower case lettering. However, such issues should not stand in the way of developing a consistent UI. There are solutions, other programs have found them, and hopefully Guitarix will too.
My review has focused on the sounds I get from Guitarix, so have no fear, I'm not planning to criticize its spelling or other UI anomalies. I know that English is not a first language for some of the developers, and I hope they take this critique in the spirit in which it is offered, i.e. in the hope of making a fine program even better.
Best regards,
dp
. It will be a hard torture for me to correct all grammatical Issues, but I will do my best to do it. Any hints in that direction are more then welcome, same as ready to apply patch's. 
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