Re: [Audacity-devel] User Interface Discussion (From intro and eye candy)

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> http://www.geocities.com/trackadat/
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> I'm not offering it as a good study in UI, but there is one trait it has that 
> I quite enjoy.  You can place the tracks anywhere you want to put them, 
> within the MDI window, anyway.

Ooough, ugh.  I really detest the multi-document-in-a-document style.
I can already do this in multiple windows by just opening up
files/projects seperately and I can put them anywhere I want to
(usually on their own desktop, a concept that doesn't really exist in
Windows, thus the multidoc interface).  And when I'm using audacity, I
already use the whole screen anyway.

Plug follows for the innovation I'd love to see and will enventually
implement if no on else does:

I don't really need to move stuff about more than I already do, I need
to be able to see more on the screen at once (without making it
smaller, and thus harder to edit).  The biggest UI change I'd like to
see is to be able to optionally collapse stereo/multiphonic tracks
into a single track display since 90% of the work I do with Audacity
is nonlinear blend editing with envelopes, and the envelopes are
nearly always identical across L/R (or however many channels there
are).  When I have 50 'tracks' that are all part of a single nonlinear
edit, I can currently only see four at a time by default and half
that information is redundant.

Monty