Re: [Audacity-devel] Sticky Tracks - Positional Linking checked in
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From: Mark D <ma...@gm...> - 2008-06-24 03:05:13
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On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Gale Andrews <ga...@au...> wrote: > > I can see the distinction between add and duplicate. I guess it depends > what we assume to be most useful behaviour if you have linking "on" > and add or duplicate a track. My guess is that users may well expect > the newly created audio track to be linked, especially if they are only > working with one label track (the most common case)? > > Something we are quite often asked for is for new/split/duplicated audio > tracks to be added at top. There is less reason to do it now than there > used to be, because the focus now goes to the new track, but some users > would find adding to top more intuitive. If we do that now, that would > solve > the problem but the automatic association with the first track might not > suit everyone. > I think it would be best to pick one location and stick to it. Adding to the head when linking is on and to the bottom when it's off seems arbitrary to me. Adding to the top would enable that default linking, but some people may resent the change. I think perhaps we need some visual reminder that the linkage is up from > the label track, not down, which the "border round the panel" idea above > does convey. Could the "open" part of the chain link in the label track > be at the top, and then the audio tracks also have the icon but open > part points down? Or some other idea that reminds of the direction of > linkage? I think this may not be obvious in a complex audio/label track > setup. > I didn't think about that. Maybe have what you said, along with some sort of an arrow? > But then they don't get an opportunity to go and discover the > enable/disable linkage in the menu, unless they noticed it when creating > their label (no guarantee of that, and if they see it they may ignore > it if they don't know what it does). > True. I know they can turn it off, I just didn't want it to seem like we're beating someone over the head telling them about this new feature. But I guess they might not notice the new buttons otherwise. Also can someone remind me, have we decided if linkage is on > by default (I think it should be, which might reinforce the above > point). > I don't think a new feature that can start messing with labels, and wave tracks if we go that route should be enabled by default. Especially if we pop up a window telling them about it when they make a label track. I'd feel more comfortable turning it on by default if it didn't mess with wave tracks. If it is on by default, then the user should definitely be made aware of it somehow. Mark |