Re: [Audacity-quality] Track Controls - was: Visibility of sync-lock mini-clock icon in Track Panel
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From: Vaughan J. <va...@au...> - 2010-10-26 20:17:01
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On 10/26/2010 10:49 AM, Gale Andrews wrote: > > Gale wrote: >> If the consensus is to change "Track Panel", I just hope I or someone can >> dream up some other alternative. > > I had the possible idea of "Track Stub". I don't especially like it, though > it might indicate something about its end-position. -1. It's a pejorative in general usage -- something incomplete or unfinished. It has *no* prior usage as a GUI term, so is non-standard. (It does have a computer usage as an incomplete function/method that's a placeholder for incomplete functionality.) Position is not the salient point about TrackInfo, it's that it contains controls. > > If we must change "Track Panel", perhaps we should use some other term > than "Panel" to make clearer still the distinction with the TrackPanel class? > The two uses of "Panel" and not exactly similar are they? Of "Panel" as a concept by itself, yes. But adding "Controls" makes the distinction clear. Oh, and per my vote suggestion, I think "Project Window" should be "Tracks Panel" (and means TrackPanel). > > Is there any word in software engineering that describes a "thing" placed > in a panel, or a "thing" attached to a GUI element in a panel? Heh, usually they're "controls"! But that covers display elements, whether they "control" anything else, e.g., a static text is a "control" in the GUI software terminology sense. - V > > Bill, are you moving to Vaughan's viewpoint, or do you feel "Track Panel" > is a historical accident like TrackInfo that's best left as is, given it largely > works for the intended audience? > > > > > Gale > |