Re: [Audacity-devel] Extra menus for VI (and other) use?

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

On 4/22/2017 1:57 AM, Gale Andrews wrote:
> On 21 April 2017 at 17:50, James Crook <cr...@in...> wrote:
>> On 4/21/2017 3:19 PM, David Bailes wrote:
>>> I've removed the presets:
>>> https://github.com/audacity/audacity/commit/592453082bee5fbca271405304c124638a341d85
>>>
>>> David.
>> Meanwhile I have organised the 'occult' commands, the ones that can have
>> key bindings but that do not normally appear in the menus.
>>
>> The occult commands can be revealed by using view->Extra-Menus. They
>> then appear in two extra menus after 'Help'.
>>
>> So we now have a mechanism to make extra menu items visible/available.
> Thanks, James.
>
> I only tested on Windows 10 so far. The interaction of the
> View menu item for extra menus with its Preference control
> and the operation of the menu items, updating their shortcuts
> properly, seems fine there.
>
> I wondered in Ext-Command if the Track group should come
> after Focus, which would group the focus commands one
> after the other.
I'm leaving it where it is for the moment.
My thinking is that the cursor is a kind of 'micro focus'.

So the first two groups are selecting some kind of focus.
And the last group is doing something with a (track) focus.

We could swap cursor and focus and get adjacency for both, but I think 
'Focus' deserves to be top.


> Of course when the extra items are settled they will have to be
> kitted out with access keys. Getting to them is a long haul now by
> keyboard.
Yes.  And thanks for your work on other access keys.

Access keys to the two top-level Ext items would go a long way towards 
reducing the long-haul journey.

--James.