Re: [Audacity-devel] Checklist clean up - greyed out effects confusion

[Richard A. <ri...@au...>]

On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 17:58 +0100, James Crook wrote:
> Julian Foad wrote:
> > I'll be frank and say that enabling the menu entries and then popping up an 
> > error box is really ugly. I haven't been here for the discussions on this but 
> > I'd caution that it might cause more annoyance than leaving it how it was for 
> > this release and then fixing the causes of the problem later.
> 
> Julian - we agreed we need to do something as 'my menus are greyed out' 
> is one of the most common reported problems.

> 
> To me the best way forward is to:
>    - Make it a preference, three choices.
>    - Set the default preference to one of the new choices.  It doesn't 
> matter to me which.  Either of the new choices will be fine for newbies. 
>    I'll set my preference to the 'old way'.

I'd go with that solution, for exactly those reasons. To help the
preferences issue, could we drop "Always allow pausing", which I think
has almost no effect on the interface. Could "Autoscroll whilst playing"
and "Update spectrogram whilst playing" also be merged? I'm not quite
sure why I would want combinations of these other than both on and both
off ...

Richard