Re: [Audacity-devel] Best default track heights?

[James C. <cr...@in...>]

Markus,

I think the solution you've adopted - of making the mute/solo buttons 
disappear first when collapsing tracks, is the best solution for making the
collapse/expand buttons work properly.  It works a treat under 
Windows now.   Of the options you suggest, I think the stereo tracks 
could start out smaller, i.e. the same total height as one mono track, 
and that would be neater, so that option gets my vote.  More comments
see below.

I have a request, that an attempt to resize a collapsed track by 
dragging should succeed and automatically flip a collapsed track out 
of collapsed mode again.  It's something I keep trying to do when I use
the collapsed feature.

--James.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Markus Meyer <me...@me...>

Opinionated comments follow :-)

> - Leave everything as it is now (the "proven technology" argument)
Possible.  

> - Leave mono tracks as big as they are now, but make stereo tracks
> smaller by default
Best choice, I think.

> - Make everything smaller by default (with mono tracks, not all controls
> would be visible with this solution)
Nope.  New users need to see all the controls from the start and will
generally be working with few tracks, so the tracks can be large.

> - Make track height dependent on window height and number of tracks,
> that is, if there are only one or two tracks, show them "full-screen",
> but later on proportionally resize tracks up to, say, 4 or 5 tracks
Nope.  But possibly a menu option to resize-to-fit.  Or/and possibly an
additional preferences that enables this automatic feature ( I would
leave it disabled) if there is demand.

> - Automatically minimize other tracks when new tracks don't fit on
> screen anymore
Nope.  When there are more tracks than can fit collapsed without 
scrolling it doesn't help anymore.  Better to be consistent however many
tracks there are.

> - Give track popup menu an option "Set current track height as default
> height for new tracks"
Nope.  As far as possible global preferences should be settable from 
the preferences panel.