Re: [Audacity-quality] Sync-lock-look

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

| From James Crook <cr...@in...> 
| Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:23:14 +0100
| Subject: Sync-lock-look
> ... I can live with the 'stalag-9' effect of chain link fencing.  It's not .
> beautiful, but it does the job.  As far as I am concerned the look is 
> now good enough.

I think Al did as tasteful a job as could be done balancing all the 
demands of getting the tiles to look reasonable. I think it's "probably"
good enough for 2.0 - many people will no doubt have a knee-jerk
reaction to it, but most will get used to it. Also the tiles themselves
aren't really confusing anyone as far as I know.   

I'm glad I asked if the tiles had to be the same as the icon. I'm not 
convinced they need to be more than "related", but if changing the 
icon means changing the tiles just for that reason, I don't think we 
have the time until after 2.0 (unless there is a quick and clear 
consensus). 


> The biggest single reason for caring about the precise look is that if 
> it is confusing to users that will increase 'support calls'. 

I think it's more than just the exact icon and how much it looks like 
a button; it's its function and when it appears/disappears as well. 


> My suggestion here is that we make sync-lock off by default for the next 
> few releases.  

+1 here as you state at the end (sync-lock is enabled, but "off" by default).  
I thought that was already agreed, and that's as it now is in the 1.3.13 
alphas.  


> We'll get feedback on it from people who are using it, rather than people 
> who accidentally encounter it.  

All the feedback I was relaying in the "Linking icon" thread was from people 
who are keen to use/explore sync-lock, not from accidental discoverers 
who suddenly find audio is being cut from all the tracks.  





Gale 


> So, +1/-1 please for the sync-lock being off by default (but the 
> sync-lock button being visible in the toolbar) for the next few releases.