From: William <ros...@li...> - 2004-06-10 10:37:40
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Silvan wrote: > Chris Cannam wrote: > >> I do mostly find the grouping of functions under Document mostly a >> comfortable one -- until I get to the clef and key functions in >> notation, which are absolutely not document settings by any stretch >> (unlike time and tempo which I can understand). > > Fair point on that indeed. A bit of a gray area there. Keys can be made to > affect the whole document, or they can be entirely local. Clefs are more > firmly a local phenomenon. It makes sense keeping them in proximity to each > other as they are often used hand in hand. You seem to be talking loosely about two different types of locality: 1) Locality of Effect: the amount of a RG document that a notation object supposedly affects. 2) Locality of Access: how close the different GUI items for accessing different notation objects are to one another. From the composer's point of view I think there is absolutely no difference in locality of effect between clefs, key signatures, time signatures and tempo changes. They affect as much or as little of your document as you want. Regarding locality of access, having done a lot of score editing, I find I generally use all of these notation objects roughly equally frequently and would like to have them all in very close proximity in the GUI. >> 5. I don't think it's acceptable to have menus nested three-deep for >> simple functions like Beam Group or Untie Notes. [...] > > I find I use the icons for all of the things in here I typically use. > Anything else would be in the category of something I use infrequently enough > to go digging through the menu for it once in awhile. Probably, anyway. I > haven't given it that much of a test drive to see how annoying it is. I do > like it much better having concepts I relate together in my mind being in the > same place though. I agree with Chris that very important simple functions like "Beam Group" and "Untie Notes" should not be hidden inside 3-deep nested menus even if the same functions are more easily accessible elsewhere in the GUI e.g. via icons. William |