Re: [Audacity-devel] Reassigned spectrograms

[James C. <cr...@in...>]

On 18/08/2015 15:45, Steve the Fiddle wrote:


> If there is a draft proposal, including a draft for the GUI, before a
> new feature is introduced, then many of these issues could be ironed
> out before committing to code and the documentation crew could be
> working on draft documentation while the feature is being developed.
Yes, but we also have to be responsive to 'please try this branch'. 
Otherwise there is a very strong incentive to just merge the branch into 
master and be done.

>
> A problem that you may not be aware of is that we can't document these
> features until you have finished experimenting with different GUI
> layouts. Could you give some indication of when that might be? We
> should try to avoid making last minute changes immediately before
> release if we can possibly help it.
>
> Steve





Steve, we currently have

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Waveform
Spectrogram
View Settings
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How about instead:

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Waveform
Spectrogram
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Waveform Preferences
Spectrogram Preferences
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How about if apply button was gone and instead apply was applied after 
every preference change (when in this dialog)?  It is a little less 
efficient on menu space, but it does (a) make clearer that we are 
working with preferences for particular views and (b) makes it easier to 
experiment directly with changes.

If you don't like this, or do but don't think it does enough, please 
give a counter proposal.  We want reassignment one way or another. There 
are clearly more settings for Spectrogram than we want to show directly 
in the top menu, so a counter-proposal does need to solve that.

--James.