Re: [Audacity-devel] ready to freeze 2.0?

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

Thanks, Gale. Bottom line, we agree it should be post-2.0.

On 2/15/2012 2:36 PM, Gale (Audacity Team) wrote:
> Vaughan wrote:
>>> On 2/15/2012 12:31 PM, Benjamin Drung wrote:
>>> Am Mittwoch, den 15.02.2012, 11:11 -0800 schrieb Vaughan Johnson:
>>> It would be nice if I could get a comment my proposed patch to fix bug
>>> #466 [1]. It won't block the freeze or release. It's probably a bit too
>>> late for getting it into 2.0.
>>>
>>> [1] http://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466
>>>
>>
>> Per http://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466#c5, there was
>> not consensus on this. I don't know whether turning it into a pref
>> changes that. Gale?
> 
> Yes it changes things because user could now choose to retain the labels 
> and by default the preference is not to retain the labels, so there won't be
> complaints if this is implemented. 
> 
> Personally I still favour not having a preference and retaining the label if 
> Sync-Lock was on (but the label track was not selected). I think that would
> be more discoverable and avoids a possibly un-necessary preference, but 
> even if that was thought a good move that isn't something that would be
> good to change until after 2.0. 

Sounds like you're not actually completely convinced.


> 
> I'll try the patch out, anyway. There is a Wiki page to discuss pros and
> cons
> of solutions to this:
> http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Proposal_Label_Enhancements#Labels_retained_when_they_define_the_edge_of_a_selection

Thanks.

> 
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> 
> Gale 
> 
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>> And it's actually a new feature, with a new checkbox in the GUI (that
>> would need to be documented, I think) and a fair amount of code, so I'm
>> inclined to put the decision off to post-2.0. Thanks for your effort.
>> Sorry.
> 
> 

Benjamin, these are the key points for right now.

Thanks,
Vaughan