Re: [Audacity-quality] Critique of new 2.2.0 menu structure
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From: Cliff S. <fly...@gm...> - 2017-03-23 19:14:30
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> On Mar 23, 2017, at 11:54 AM, Peter Sampson <pet...@gm...> wrote: > > Cliff wrote: > >I may be the only one, but for me I prefer the long menus for the reason is that > >they are much faster to find what you want and less clicks to get something done. > > I'm sure you're not the only one Cliff, there will be others ... ;-)) > > But my suggestion, if implemented does not remove that option for you - it merely > changes the default to make Audacity look a little less intimidating to newbies. > > All you would need to do is to go to Preferences>Effects and in > "Efffects in menu are:" and choose the top item "Sorted by effect name". True so are you saying to make the "Group by Type" default as that looks like the menu you were talking about. Does that not do what you are suggesting? I agree disabling those effects that are not going to be used is a good idea. Now if we could just manually put the ones we really want in the order we want...... I suspect that is a lot of programming work so probably isn't worth it for the few that would really use it. Cliff > > And if we did do this I'm sure we would mention this tip in the Manual and in > the Release Notes. > > > Personally I too prefer a single menu, but (on my production system/environment) > I make it a lot shorter by disabling all the effects that I never (or very rarely) use. > > Peter |