Re: [Audacity-devel] [Audacity-quality] Bug: Label is removed when deleting sound

[Benjamin D. <bd...@ub...>]

Am Montag, den 12.12.2011, 19:08 +0000 schrieb Gale Andrews:
> | From Peter Sampson <pet...@ya...> 
> | Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:28:06 -0800 (PST)
> | Subject: [Audacity-quality] [Audacity-devel] Bug: Label is removed when deleting sound
> > I really do believe that the original posting in this thread is correct
> > and that this is a *bug* and not an "enhancement request".
> 
> A bug is (I think) something that happens that is not intended by
> the developer. Al intended all the behaviour we see now, I 
> believe. It lacks functionality, as does for example vertical 
> dragging and pasting from stereo into mono.  

We can argue if my report is a bug or an enhancement request. It's at
least a regression for my use case, because the behavior changed to some
unusable for my use case.

> I agree that deleting a selection in front of and touching the 
> label then retaining the label is an important use case. But we
> don't IMO want to remove the ability to touch the label and delete
> the label. 
> 
> I suggest, let's argue the best way to add an option to delete audio 
> and retain labels on the Wiki (and certainly not on -devel). Then
> add to Bugzilla. 

I was so annoyed by the behavior that I wrote a patch, created bug
report #466 [1] and attached the patch to it. With the patch, I can't
accidentally delete a label.

[1] http://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466

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Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer