Re: [Audacity-quality] Exporting audio files

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

On 8 November 2017 at 16:17, Paul Licameli <pau...@gm...> wrote:
> I'll go on record disliking "Save other," but that's only one voice.

and just one voice from me too, hence the reason for raising the matter on-list.

>
> Maybe Forum should decide, but maybe you get a biased sample, those
> disliking the change more likely to say so.

Most definitely so, but more than just "not liking the change". We are
getting feedback that users are confused by the fact that they can't
find where / how to export.


>
> I do not require or prohibit this change.  If someone decides to change it,
> I hope you reuse an already internationalized string _("Export") so .pot
> doesn't need another update.

Good point.

Steve

>
> PRL
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 11:13 AM, 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.
>>
>> --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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