[Audacity-quality] Dropdown menu for the vertical ruler in waveform tracks

[Peter S. <pet...@ya...>]

Having the chance at last today to try some of Paul's latest changes(and thanks and well done to Gale for finally get the wx3 Windows builddone and posted) I must say that I am rather taken with this new dropdown menu available on right-click in the vertical ruler.
1) For a start, as Paul says, may folk are these days used to right-clickingto get a dropdown/popup menu, it's quite common usage in apps.
2) I was one of those folk who early on stumbled into the bear-trap of accidentallyclicking on the vertical ruler - wondering why my view had changed - and worse,having no ide of how to get my "proper" view back - and I know from past posts onthe forum and watching Mrs S. struggle that I am not alone in this..  The dropdownmenu makes it all clearer with its options and provides a discoverable way to get back to default "proper" view with its "Zoom to fit".
3) This means that I am happy to support the old use of right-click in the verticalruler being replace by this new usage for the dropdown menu.  I think that it willlead to greater "discoverability.
(Aside: I'm one of those that thinks we should have more right-click dropdownsin Audacity e.g. the waveform and the TCP for starters.)

I do have a couple of small misgivings
a) Nomenclature:  I think the three "Zoom ..."  commands could easily be confusedwith the horizontal zoom commands - so I would prefer them to say "Vertical Zoom ..."for the avoidance of doubt and confusion.
b) When hovering over the Vertical Ruler the cursor changes to the magnifying glassto indicate zoom - but the right-click no longer is a (pure) zoom function.  So either we should change the hover cursor - or add some hover-text help - or even both.
c) I find it very disconcerting that the Linear/Logarithmic radio button in the dropdownmenu applies to the channel and not the track, the stereo pair.  Perhaps I'm beingfuddy-duddy here but I really don't think you should mix views like this in the same track.And note that the 3 zooms apply to the stereo track and not a particular channel.
Cheers,Peter.

Peter Sampson
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