Re: [Audacity-quality] Exporting audio files

[Steve t. F. <ste...@gm...>]

On 8 November 2017 at 16:13, James Crook <cr...@in...> wrote:
> On 11/8/2017 3:50 PM, Steve the Fiddle wrote:
>>
>> On 8 November 2017 at 15:40, James Crook <cr...@in...> wrote:
>>>
>>> Doer decides?  You can change it - though perhaps formally get Paul's OK
>>> to
>>> do it since he is (or will be) 2.2.1 RM?  I care about the menus being
>>> much
>>> better organised than they were, not about every single detail.  And if
>>> you
>>> do change it, you'll be taking responsibility for all those inexperienced
>>> users who don't find how to 'Save' as wav!
>>
>> Sure, but we're a team, right?
>> We have some (admittedly limited) feedback, and I've cast my 2c.
>>
>> Yes I agree that the menu reorganisation is the more important (and
>> much improved) part, so just talking details here.
>>
>> What do others think? "Save Other" or "Export" or something else?
>> Assuming  that the rest of the File menu remains the same, I'm +1 for
>> "Export"
>
> If we're voting I'm -1 on it changing from "Save Other" - but if it were
> just us two voting and no one else, then I think it should change.  I think
> I am right in my choice, but I don't think you are terribly misguidedly
> wrong in yours,

:-)


> and the (small) inconvenience to inexperienced users matters
> less to me than you wanting to change it, because of feedback you have
> received, and not being able to.
>
> By contrast I do care a lot more about record-beside and record-below, which
> we also disagree on.  If it came to a vote I would put energy into getting
> consensus on my side about record-beside being the default.

Likewise, I don't think you are terribly misguidedly wrong ;-)
Though there have been a few questions on the forum about this, there
seems to be little confusion about the new "record-beside", so not a
problem imo.

Steve

>
> --James.
>
>
>
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>> By the way, I would also like to condense the two optional extra-menus
>>> into
>>> one.  However, if I do that it's for 2.2.2 rather than 2.2.1 given the
>>> timescales.
>>>
>>> --James.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/8/2017 3:04 PM, Steve the Fiddle wrote:
>>>>
>>>> We're getting quite a few people asking how to export a normal audio
>>>> file.
>>>>
>>>> It would seem that renaming "Export" as "Save Other" has created as
>>>> much confusion  as it resolved.
>>>>
>>>> My personal view is that with the current File menu layout, the least
>>>> confusing would be to rename "Save Other" back to "Export". Imo, the
>>>> reduced size of the menu and improved menu order does enough to draw
>>>> attention to the Export menu item without removing the "E" word.
>>>>
>>>> Steve
>
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