Re: [Audacity-quality] Green triangle with Ctrl key

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

As far as I could see, yes, the vote is very much to remove it. It's 
usually much easier for the dev who made the change, to revert it, than 
for anybody else.

So, Paul, please do this.

Thanks,
Vaughan


On 11/21/2014 1:15 AM, Peter Sampson wrote:
> What do we have to do to get rid of this green/black triangle cursor?
>
> We now only nine days until feature and GUI freeze.
>
> I will be very unhappy if we ship 2.1 with this in  it as it will
> undoubtedly
> cause unnecessary postings on the forum.
>
> Bill wrote earlier that "Paul added the green triangle to aid
> discoverability".
> Just how does that aid discoverability? I don't get it, nor will most other
> users as the "discoverability" relies on you also noticing that the Status
> Bar message has changed.
>
> And  apart from any other considerations it acts as a very odd cursor as
> it starts playback from the back end of the triangle rather than the pointy
> front end which one would expect ...
>
> Peter.
>
> Peter Sampson
> Tel: +44 (0)1625 524 780
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> *From:* Steve the Fiddle <ste...@gm...>
> *To:* audacity-quality <aud...@li...>
> *Sent:* Friday, November 14, 2014 1:09 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Audacity-quality] Green triangle with Ctrl key
>
>
>
> On 13 November 2014 21:07, Bill Wharrie <bi...@go...
> <mailto:bi...@go...>> wrote:
>
>
>     On 13/11/2014, at 3:24 PM, Peter Sampson <pet...@ya...
>     <mailto:pet...@ya...>> wrote:
>
>     > Yebbut I only found that bit in the Manual this afternoon after
>     > being told in this thread that that functionality was there and after
>     > a lot of digging.
>     >
>     > And I practically live in the Manual - so what hope is there for
>     > the casual reader to discover this,
>
>     I agree. I had to dig for it as well, and my point was that the
>     heading doesn’t really describe what it does anyway.
>
>     >
>     > And the only help the green triangle would be is postings like:
>     > "what the heck is that bloomin' green triangle"  ;-))
>
>     That’s why I’m -1 on keeping the green-play-now cursor.
>
>
> And it is less obvious with a black triangle (as it appears on my machine).
>
> Steve
>
>
>
>
>     — Bill
>
>     >
>     > Peter
>     >
>     > Peter Sampson
>     > Tel: +44 (0)1625 524 780
>     >
>      > From: Bill Wharrie <bi...@go... <mailto:bi...@go...>>
>      > To: audacity-quality <aud...@li...
>     <mailto:aud...@li...>>
>      > Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2014 6:58 PM
>      > Subject: Re: [Audacity-quality] Green triangle with Ctrl key
>      >
>      >
>      > On 13/11/2014, at 1:42 PM, Steve the Fiddle
>     <ste...@gm... <mailto:ste...@gm...>> wrote:
>      >> [snip]
>      >> (I've gone "aeons" according to Bill, without being aware of
>     that feature).
>      >>
>      > Perhaps I was engaging a bit of hyperbole there? ;)
>      >
>      > "eon(chiefly Brit. also aeon) noun (often eons): an indefinite
>     and very long period of time, often a period exaggerated for
>     humorous or rhetorical effect:”
>      >
>      > This goes back to 1.3.6, October 2008 (so, 6 years).
>      >
>      > And, no, I hadn’t been aware of it either! “Play from here
>     without changing cursor position” is not something I need to do very
>     often.
>      >
>      > It *is* in the manual, but the description is a bit odd:
>      >
>      > "Keyboard-and-mouse change of playback position
>      > Another way to move the playback position to arbitrary points
>     without stopping is to hold CTRL (or CMD on a Mac) then left-click
>     in the waveform. The key to hold while clicking cannot be configured
>     in Keyboard Preferences."
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > — Bill
>      >
>      >
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