[Audacity-quality] TCP revised dropdown menu

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

On the whole I think I'm quite liking the revised, shorter, Track ControlPanel dropdown menu that Paul has provided.
1) I'd *really*like to see the menu also available as a right-click option in the TCP.
2) I would prefer the View Settings menu to be context dependent so that when you are in Waveform you *only* see the Waveform settings withoutthe option to toggle to Spectrogram settings and vice versa.This would have the advantage that the Waveform Settings dialog could be appropriately smaller (there's a lot of empty real-estate in it right now).
3) I really like the fact that the user can easily select "Defaults" in the viewsettings.
4) If we are going to have the settings for Spectrogram view in the Spectrogram'sview settings then I think we should  the Spectrograms entry in Preferences.I'm guessing that Paul has done it this way so that Prefs can be a globalsetting while the TCP setting is local to that track.  If that is the case thenI would prefer to still remove the Prefs>Spectrograms - and add a local/globalswitch in the Spectrogram's View Settings - as this means it can all be managed by the user in one place and they don't have to flit from Prefs to viewstings.
5) As you might imagine, I *love* the little switch in the Spectrogram's ViewSettings for "Enable spectral selection.  I do however thing that Spectral Selection should be capitalized in this dialog as it is a specific Audacity entity.
6) I agree with Steve that the dialog for the Spectrogram's View Settings issomewhat daunting and techy - but then so is the existing Prefs>Spectrogramsand indeed so are spectral views and spectral editing anyway  They are notfor the faint-hearted o the un-knowledgeable.  But I am happy with that as I'mpretty sure that most users will never stray from the default Waveform viewanyway.  We almost certainly need more spectral help in the Manual but thatis well beyond my experience and skill-set.
7) While we are bent on making the TCP dropdown menu shorter, why don't weconsider hiving off the channel management block into a separate dropdownoff the main TCP dropdown with a rollover?
8) I don't like the way the View Settings menu can be used to change the view from Waveform to Spectrogram or vice-versa - but if my point 4 is accepted andimplemented then this would no longer occur anyway.

Once the menu has stabilized we can start work on the update to the Manual.I have already placed a P1 there for that, but it will be a fair bit of work and weare likely to need help with the techy Spectrogram's View Settings stuff as thatgoes right over my head ...
Cheers,Peter.



Peter Sampson
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