Re: [Audacity-devel] enable/disable Save menu--how?

[Vaughan J. <va...@au...>]

Ed, I just want to reiterate the appreciation part of this. Thanks for 
wanting to help and spending so much time working on it.

I'm just expressing how I think you could be more effective in the 
group. Sorry if it's too abrasive. Let me know.

- V


Vaughan Johnson wrote:
> Ed Musgrove wrote:
>>> --...
>>>
>>  In reality, I suppose, if I really want to learn I should go
>> ahead and pay the price -- spend the time to figure it out myself. Thanks
>> anyway.
>>
>>
> 
> Ed, I truly do appreciate your enthusiasm, but we're all very pressed 
> for time these days. So yes, it may take you time to get up to speed, 
> but we all did, mostly with very little hand-holding. We're willing to 
> help, but clearly, you hadn't put in the effort to understand the 
> mechanisms well enough to make a reasonable suggestion about the proper 
> way to do it (or first asked whether it was a good idea). It takes time 
> to read your wordy messages and figure out what you don't understand, 
> and when it's apparent you didn't put in the effort to understand what 
> you were suggesting, well that's frustrating to me.
> 
> To me, it would have been far better if you'd just asked why Save isn't 
> enabled (i.e., why the project isn't marked dirty) when you move a 
> window. Would have taken far less time to answer.
> 
> Thanks for trying to adapt to the constraints of working with an 
> all-volunteer development team doing this in our spare time.
> 
> - Vaughan
> 
>