Re: [Rosegarden-devel] patch

[D. M. 'S. M. <ros...@gm...>]

On Friday 16 December 2005 09:45 am, Chris Cannam wrote:

> Also, the Record button maybe shouldn't be hidden away on the flappy bit. 

My vote would be to get rid of the flappy bit entirely.  I've had persistent 
amnesia problems with that damn thing for ages, and the only purpose it 
serves is to annoy me by randomly hiding the record button.

I guess the idea was to be able to make it more compact, so it would use less 
screen real estate when the extra buttons weren't needed, but eliminating 
these buttons only saves a few pixels anyway.  If somebody really wanted to 
save space with a super compact floating transport, they could get most of 
the same functionality as the de-flapped transport by dragging the transport 
toolbar out and turning it into a separate window.

> Thinking about a bit of a reshuffle, as well as possibly adding in the two
> buttons Mikael suggests, how about this?

I've thought about my own usage pattern, and I always hit play to play and 
stop to stop.  Hitting play again has the same effect, true enough, but I 
don't actually ever do that...  I've also observed  the redundant  stop 
buttons on the various transport toolbars, and have found I use those too.

I fear if we get rid of the stop button(s), I won't be the only one confused.

> The other funny thing about the transport is that "DIV /16" indicator on
> the display area.  It's not used for anything, it never changes, and again,
> I don't recall anyone ever asking about that.  Can anyone suggest anything
> useful we might put there?

Nope, I sure can't.  Now that you mention it, I always have wondered WTF 
"DIV /16" was supposed to mean.

Anyway, I'm thinking something like  the attached, although I'm sure it 
wouldn't quite scale out as drawn here.  Keep the stop, make the stop and 
record buttons smaller, and put them under the play buton.  Then the L1 L2 
buttons in what is here depicted as an empty void.

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