Some of these locations are evidently sacrosanct.
Sent from my iPhone, so please pardon all the typos. On Aug 21, 2012, at 8:49 AM, "David H. Bailey" <dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com> wrote: > On 8/21/2012 7:56 AM, Colin Broom wrote: >> >> Yeah, I did know that, thanks, but I guess it bothers me that by default it >> takes up so much space. My bigger issue with it is that it's not especially >> intuitive. For example, one particular gripe is that depending on which tab >> is selected, the plugins button has different content, which makes things >> harder to find. >> I guess as long as there's some kind of keyboard shortcuts such as offered >> by TG, it might be manageable, but I hope they don't go down the tabs route, >> as even with familiarity, I don't think it results in an advance in >> efficiency. >> C. >> > > I can't argue with you on any of the points you mention -- but a few > versions ago Finale restructured its menus and I find many of their > decisions just as unintuitive as any ribbon structure I've seen. For > example, I've never understood why "show active layer only" was under > the "View" menu in Finale when it was really most useful while editing > and so my intuition always looked for it under the Edit menu. But I > eventually got used to it, but now it's under the Document menu! Well > practically everything in Finale works on the current Document, so why > didn't they put *everything* under the Document menu? Why take > something that has to do with how someone *views* the music or how > someone *edits* the music and place it in a menu that to my "intuition" > would most likely be where the page margins and other layout issues > would be placed? And why is "Transpose" under "Utilities" instead of > "Edit?" And why is "respell notes" under "Utilities" while "Enharmonic > Spelling" is under "Edit?" You don't edit the music with the entry > "Enharmonic Spelling" -- you tell the program how to interpret things. > So wouldn't that be a "Utility" or at the least a "Preference?" While > actually respelling the notes is part of editing the music isn't it? > Why is "Save Preferences" under "File" while the actual defining of the > preferences is under the "Edit" menu? Shouldn't everything that > pertains to "Preferences" be together? > > I don't expect any answers to my questions because there is no > justification for placing those (and other) menu items where they are in > Finale that I can see. But obviously someone found great justification > for making those decisions. I don't find the Finale menus any less > confusing that the Sibelius ribbon, and ultimately things become > comfortable once we start using them regularly. So I rarely am using > the "Find in Ribbon" feature of Sibelius these days, but I sure could > use one for Finale, which they very conveniently didn't include. I > would think that would be a utility that everybody who uses new versions > of Finale could benefit from, yet it's not under the "Utilities" menu > and not under any other menu either. > > Ultimately one person's "wow, that is so intuitive!" is another person's > "holy cow, why on earth would they hide that entry under that heading, > it makes no sense whatsoever?!" > > One great benefit of Sibelius, which I hope Finale will someday > institute natively, not requiring a plug-in, is the ability of a user to > define their own keyboard shortcuts, so the entire interface practically > can be turned into keyboard shortcuts. > > > -- > David H. Bailey > dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
