Re: [Audacity-quality] "Apply" button in Prefs>Spectrograms

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

I note that we spent time discussing this a month ago now.

Several suggestions were made in this thread - none has been
taken up - so we srill have the unsatisfactory situation of a misleading
GUI in Prefs Spectralgrams where

a) The Cancel button does not do what most users would expect a "cancel" to
do - i.e. abort any changes in the current dialog, reverting to settings as
they were
before entering the dialog.

b) OK and Apply being broadly similar in action.

I ran up aginst this again when trying to deal with one of the P1s in the
Manual:
http://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/Spectrograms_Preferences
Where the Apply button (nor the other buttons) is not documented.

If the Cancel button is to continue not effecting a proper "canceel" with a
revert
the I think we should be raising a P3 on Bugzill and Release Noting this
behavior.

Peter.


On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Paul Licameli <pau...@gm...>
wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 4:50 AM, Peter Sampson <
> pet...@gm...> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 5:22 AM, Paul Licameli <pau...@gm...>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I am myself not wholly satisfied with how the per-track spectrogram
>>> settings now work, for some other reasons besides these.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> which then begs the question:
>>
>> Why do we have the per-track settings if you are not wholly satisfied?
>>
>> It's always seemed to me an unnecessary complication to have local
>> settings that can over-ride the global setting.  But I am not a user of
>> Spectrogram views so cannot really judge
>>
>> Peter.
>>
>
> I did find it very unsatisfactory that all spectrogram views were forced
> to use the same scale limits.  You couldn't zoom one independently of
> others.
>
> But what I still find unsatisfactory is that there should be more
> granularity about what parts of spectrogram settings are defaulted to
> preferences, and what parts are overridden per-track.  That is, I think I
> would want, for instance, per-track scale settings to be in effect, but
> still the window size would default in all tracks to global preferences.
>
> The window would need tobe sub-divided into sections, each with a "Use
> Preferences" checkbox.
>
> But that would complicate the user interface too.
>
> PRL
>
>
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