On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Chris Cannam wrote: > Rationale: The name was a bit off-putting, and complicated enough to > look like a specialized function rather than an everyday one. File is > a more obvious place to go for audio file management than Segments; I > think people often flounder around File looking for somewhere to load > audio files from, and this will help a bit.
I hate what I came up with, but "Manage Audio" doesn't suggest anything about files to me at all. I think the old menu entry was "Manage Audio Files." If anything, maybe go back to that. I think the whole concept is still too confusing though. If it takes a huge explanation what it's for, it's not intuitive enough. Argument against my long name, but probably also an argument against our confusing design. It feels like this whole audio file manager thing was tacked on as a rather crudely conceived afterthought, which is probably the truth of the matter. Although I almost never actually use this anyway, except to purge junk files, or import files off disk. I agree the importing stuff would be much more logical if it could be done from the File menu. Purging junk files isn't easy enough, because I still forget to do it, and I have gigabytes of indecipherable crap (rg-nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn-nnnnnnnn.wav) on my hard drive even after all that going around we did a year or two ago. Not Rosegarden's fault that I forget to use the housekeeping features, but.... > * Divide the Notes/Adjust menus up into three: Note, Phrase, and > Adjust. > > Rationale: Trying to put things where you'd expect to find them. I'm not even going to think about any of this before looking at it, but I wish you luck achieving that goal. I hate what I came up with last time, intensely. I hate all of our menus intensely, when you get down to it. That's why I put 90% of the things I use on a regular basis into the overcomplicated toolbars a certain orange juice guzzling individual in the south of France finds so off-putting. In fact, the only menu I use and don't detest is File. Everything else, I avoid to the greatest possible extent, which is quite a lot of avoidance, thanks to Mr. Toolbar Man. I guess the other menu stuff I use most frequently is in Notation, what you're trying to sort for the 12th time into something sensible. -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
