On Sunday 17 April 2016 11:29:15 D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > On 04/17/2016 10:51 AM, David Faure wrote: > > I don't understand why this would require an unintuitive new shortcut. > > What do we lose by letting Left/Right and Ctrl+Left/Right navigate to > > the next segment automatically? > > > Or the other way around, what do we win by blocking navigation at the end > > of a segment? > > You misunderstand me. Your automatic segment selection idea is fine > when the segments are linear, but if I have two overlapping segments > with different voices at the same point in time, I have no way of > switching from one to the other with the keyboard. Since I'm not > advancing horizontally, the auto-selector can do me no good here. > > Rosegarden could do with both, I think. I realize the last thing we > need is more shortcuts, and I'm open to other suggestions how to achieve > the end result. Having multiple voices at the same time is extremely > common in all sorts of music, and it is a major thing we tried to bolt > onto Rosegarden after the fact.
Oh I see. Things are indeed more complex than I thought - my use case is indeed linear segments only. Then I agree, the auto-selection would only be useful in cases of linear segments, and shortcuts would be needed otherwise. -- David Faure, fa...@kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr Working on KDE Frameworks 5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/302982198;130105516;z _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list Rosegarden-devel@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
