Re: [Audacity-devel] Cascading the TCP drop-down

[Paul L. <pau...@gm...>]

On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Leland <le...@au...> wrote:

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> > I don't know how frequently you move tracks around with keyboard.  But I
> > use the mouse, and the Move menu items are mostly redundant when I can
> > just as easily click and drag the track by the control panel.
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> Blind people find it very difficult to drag using the mouse and my wife
> would be very displeased if the move items were cascaded.
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> > So here's another idea:  keep the four Move items, so they can have
> shortcut
> > keystrokes, but put them at the bottom of the menu for each kind of
> track, so
> > mouse users can more easily reach the items they really need.
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> That would be better than cascaded.  But, also keep in mind that some
> keyboard users move up and down the menus item by item.  Moving these to
> the bottom will force them to relearn the order, but I don't think that's
> too much of a burden.  What do you think David?
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> I realize that mousers are much more common that keyboarders, but it's not
> just VI users that utilize the keyboard for tasks within Audacity.
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I see, the inconvenience of more down-arrow keystrokes for keyboarders may
outweigh the more minor inconvenience for the mousers.  I'm willing to give
up my last suggestion.

PRL



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