Re: [Audacity-devel] Should display track name in waveform pane

[Vaughan J. <va...@au...>]

Hi, Norm. Thanks for your interest in Audacity. I suspect that nobody
has mentioned to you that we're currently in feature freeze, so stuff
like this probably will not be accepted until we have fixed all
P2-priority bugs and released 2.0. Sorry.

- Vaughan


On 1/8/2012 6:33 PM, Norm C wrote:
> In projects with multiple similarly-named tracks (this happens a LOT in large
> projects) the limited space for displaying the track name (about 10 chars)
> makes navigating the tracks somewhat awkward (or else forces you to use
> short names). Most DAWs display the track name in the waveform pane at the
> top left (eg. CoolEditPro, ProTools, n-Track Studio) or else take up a lot
> more screen space for the track header (eg. Cubase, StudioOne). I think
> displaying the name in the waveform is preferable. However, some people will
> probably not want the waveform "cluttered up" so I've also provided a way to
> disable it, in the Interface Preferences (default is disabled). 
> 
> See the attached screen capture.
> 
> Patch has been tested on Windows XP and 7, and Puppy Linux.
> 
> Norm
> 
> http://audacity.238276.n2.nabble.com/file/n7166344/TrackNameInWaveform.png
> TrackNameInWaveform.png 
> http://audacity.238276.n2.nabble.com/file/n7166344/TrackNameInWaveform.diff
> TrackNameInWaveform.diff 
> 
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