Re: [Audacity-devel] Linking crash

[David B. <drb...@go...>]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Martyn Shaw
<mar...@go...> wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I tried to get a bunch of my students to look at this today. 9/18 were
> actually present. 6/9 were otherwise engaged (probably on Facebook). The
> remaining 3 said that the icon in the track name should go (and I think we
> all agreed that).  They thought that the background on the vertical scale
> was OK but agreed that it could be problematic for people without perfect
> eyesight.
>
> What about a big coloured line around the linked tracks in the TrackPanel?
>  And/or the chain/linked icon in the max/min bit (where there is plenty of
> space)?  I committed lime-green outlining of the active track once and it
> eventually got changed to (the current) faded-in yellow, which is much
> nicer.  Still space for a 'linked' outline though (2px I think).

My guess is that having lines round tracks both for focus and linking
might be diminish the effectiveness of each of them. I'm not sure that
the icon really belongs on the collapse/expand button. There's an
extensive discusion on the display of linking on the proposal at:
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Linking_proposals

David.

>
> TTFN
> Martyn
>
> On 12/03/2010 12:40, David Bailes wrote:
>>
>> Hi Martyn,
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Martyn Shaw
>> <mar...@go...>  wrote:
>>
>>>        I don't think we need the 'chain' in the 'track name' place as
>>> well
>>> as behind the ruler, so lose it from the 'name' place, which is small
>>> enough already?
>>
>> For the visually impaired, there are two problems using a pattern
>> behind the vertical scale:
>> - makes the numbers more difficult to read.
>> - the pattern has to have reasonably low contrast so that the numbers
>> can be read. Especially when a track is collapsed, the pattern isn't
>> easy to see.
>> (It could also be argued that chains in the vertical scale incorrectly
>> imply that amplitudes are linked in some way)
>>
>> The advantage of using a separate icon is that it can have much
>> greater contrast. However there is a problem with where to put it if
>> it needs to be visible when a track is collapsed. Maybe if there is
>> more information to be displayed then the width of the track info
>> panel has to be made wider.
>>
>> David.
>>
>