Re: [Audacity-devel] multiple label tracks

[Gale A. <ga...@au...>]

| From James Crook <cr...@in...> 
| Tue, 25 Dec 2007 23:51:42 +0000
| Subject: [Audacity-devel] multiple label tracks
> I'd like to avoid an extra preference if it can be done and satisfy 
> everyone.
> 
> Another possibility is to make Ctrl-B optional - if there isn't already 
> a label at the current selection.  That's no loss from my perspective as 
> it would be very rare for me to want to create two labels on the same 
> track at the same position.  For those who do want to create a second 
> label in the same place, whilst Ctrl-B is not that discoverable, the 
> alternative of creating a new label elsewhere and dragging it to the 
> same position certainly is discoverable.

Seems a near-perfect solution to me, subject to any comments Beinan 
has, and better than adding a Preference (at least until we can provide
help for them all). Beinan should now be able to just spacebar after
creating a label, control playback with hotkeys without changing focus,
then SHIFT + A will stop and set the cursor allowing him to 
immediately type the label at that cursor position.  

It may confuse those who'll be switching direct from 1.2.x to 1.4.0 to
find they now can't simply type to create a new label at the same place.
Dragging a label leftwards is not that discoverable (needs to drag left 
edge left, then right-edge left), and cut and paste has the bug that you
paste the system clipboard content instead of the label content. But if we 
are sure to document the new create-label-by-typing behaviour in the
1.4.0 manual, this seems a much better trade off for yourself and Beinan
than what we had before. 


Gale