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

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

| From Steve the Fiddle <ste...@gm...> 
| Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:15:11 +0100
| Subject: [Audacity-quality] Sync-lock-look
> The link icon on track panel is clearly not a button now (which is
> good), and I like that you can click on it to select the track when
> the track is collapsed. 

I'm fine with it now the horizontal line above the icon has gone. 


> However when SyncLock is off and the track is minimised, there is 
> a tiny sliver between the track name and the expand button, which
> if clicked on with the accuracy of a surgeon it is possible to select 
> the track without expanding it.
> My preference would be that when SyncLock is off, the track icon
> disappears but the track expand button does not grow to fill the
> space, but that the space remains empty, leaving a space that the user
> can click on when the track is minimised.

+1.  Sync-Lock is off by default and it would be a solution to (easily) 
select a minimised track in that default case.

I think it would look OK to remove that "sliver" between the track
name and the expand button; I don't think it would make the icon look 
like a button when in minimised state. The space saved would add up 
when you had a lot of tracks.  

  
> Regarding the icon / tiles, I'm not overly concerned about what the
> graphic is, but using a literal representation of a clock would tend
> to invite the question of whether there is any significance to 1:55.
> As it represents "synchronization" rather than "time", perhaps
> something a bit less literal would convey the meaning more clearly,
> for example:http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=synchronize&tbs=isch:1,isz:i&biw=1366&bih=549

-1. Those icons made me think of file synchronisation, or exchanging 
tracks' vertical order, or the Undo/Redo icon we already use in 
Edit Toolbar. If there is a mnemonic for movement it should I think
be horizontal. 

But given an icon can mean anything, I think the clock is OK and will 
look a bit less oppressive since the clocks don't have to be linked
together.





Gale