[Audacity-manual] Duplicate preferences

[Steve t. F. <ste...@gm...>]

The following appear twice in Preferences:

Align with Zero
Align with Cursor
Align with Selection Start
Align with Selection End
Align End with Cursor
Align End with Selection Start
Align End with Selection End

Once is for the "Align Tracks" menu and once is for the "Align and
Move Cursor" menu.

Because the Preferences list the menu labels (the text as it appears
in the menu) there is nothing in the Preference settings to
distinguish which option corresponds to which function.

Also, "Align with Cursor" does exactly the same thing as "Align with
Selection Start", so although they have different names they duplicate
the same function. The same for  "Align End with Cursor" and "Align
End with Selection Start".

It has been suggested that users may not realise that when there is a
selection the cursor position is the start of the selection - however
we already assume that users will understand this in "Align and Move
Cursor". I am NOT suggesting that we add another duplicate menu named
"Align and Move Selection".

None of these commands appear to be listed in the shortcut reference:
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Keyboard_Shortcut_Reference#tracks
(P1 for the manual?)

There are two solutions that come to mind:
1) Replace the Keyboard Preferences Interface with one that indicates
the menu hierarchy.
2) Use unique names for all menu items.

Option 1 is probably preferable, but a lot of work.
Option 2 is a trivial fix.

One way or another it needs fixing. Duplicate preferences were not
present in Audacity 2.0.0.


If we decide for option 2, then we need to decide on the labels that
appear in the menus (and also appear in Preferences).

There is an additional command currently being developed for the
"Align Tracks" menu which will align tracks end to end.

I'd prefer not to hold up the release of 2.0.4 so my vote would be to
go for option 2 and we can reconsider the menu names when there is a
better interface for keyboard preferences.

Steve