Re: [Audacity-devel] Effect categories for standard Audacity Effects

[Gale A. <ga...@au...>]

| From Steve <ste...@gm...> 
| Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:04:50 +0100
| Subject: [Audacity-devel] Effect categories for standard Audacity Effects
> I assume that it is still planned to reintroduce Effect Categories at
> some time, and I see that most of the standard Audacity effects have
> categories defined. 

It will only be reintroduced when there is a way for users
to turn it off and on, and I believe it would be off by default
(unless there was some way to turn it on automatically 
if more than a given number of effects were detected).  

I'm pretty sure a higher proportion of users don't use 
large numbers of effects than do - especially novices.
If Effect Categories was on by default in 2.0 there would
be far too many complaints because of the increased 
navigation needed (though I admit part of the problem
in 1.3.6 was that common effects like Noise Removal were 
buried too far inside the tree). 


> However I notice that the "Nyquist Prompt" is still
> unsorted. Could this be categorised as a "Utility"?

Don't see why not, given it should work on all three
platforms. 

Should it be on our Nyquist "wish-list" that a pre-existing
track is not required for Nyquist Prompt? Or does the 
Nyquist Workbench cover this problem now (we haven't
really publicised this, is it mature enough to do so?)



Gale