[Rosegarden-devel] Track parameter box

2006-06-18 Thread Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
Hi, Before I go too far, please comment about the attached proposal for a new "Track Parameter Box" allowing to change the playback device and instrument, and also some recording filters. Regards, Pedro <> ___ Rosegarden-devel mailing list Rosegarde

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Track parameter box

2006-06-18 Thread Luis Garrido
Now that you are messing with it, I for one could do with a narrower layout, so more space is available for the track canvas. I would suggest, in general, to favour a more vertical layout. If a control needs to be wide, put its label on top instead of on the left. Stack the segment parameters. Don

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Track parameter box

2006-06-18 Thread Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
On Sunday, 18 June 2006 15:09, Luis Garrido wrote: > As it is now, this palette plus the track list column consume more > than 50% of the width of my 1024x728 display, no matter how small I > configure the fonts. I am far from happy about it. This "palette" is in fact a dockable panel, which you c

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Track parameter box

2006-06-18 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
On Sunday 18 June 2006 11:57 am, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: > This "palette" is in fact a dockable panel, which you can detach from the > main window, or close it when you want. Look at the two little buttons at > the top-right corner. You can restore it later from its closed state, using > a k

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Track parameter box

2006-06-18 Thread Luis Garrido
This is how RG 1.2.3 looks now in my screen: http://www.picturetrunk.com/uploads/5886cf38ee.png I cannot gain any more space for my tracks if I want to keep the panel visible. The blank space at the bottom left Makes Me Cringe (tm). While I can always resort to the Gates Solution (buy better har

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Track parameter box

2006-06-18 Thread Martin Shepherd
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, Luis Garrido wrote: >... > I thought I was clear in my suggestions but, sure, find here a > mock-up of them. >... The problem with this is illustrated by the following screen-shot of how Rosegarden currently looks on my screen: http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~mcs/Rosegarden/

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Track parameter box

2006-06-18 Thread D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre
On Sunday 18 June 2006 4:28 pm, Martin Shepherd wrote: > http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~mcs/Rosegarden/rg.png Just to illustrate why I stopped being bothered so much by this issue: http://users.adelphia.net/~silvan/1280.png Which should by no means imply I'm not interested in some way to make 102

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Track parameter box

2006-06-18 Thread Martin Shepherd
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre wrote: >... Which should by no means imply I'm not interested in some way to > make 1024x768 work more comfortably. For that matter, I can still > only see nine bars myself. I actually deliberately got a laptop with a relatively small screen, bo

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Track parameter box

2006-06-19 Thread Chris Cannam
On Sunday 18 Jun 2006 13:18, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: > Before I go too far, please comment about the attached proposal for a new > "Track Parameter Box" allowing to change the playback device and > instrument, and also some recording filters. Looks generally fine to me. Chris ___

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Track parameter box

2006-06-19 Thread Chris Cannam
On Sunday 18 Jun 2006 20:18, Luis Garrido wrote: > This is how RG 1.2.3 looks now in my screen: > > http://www.picturetrunk.com/uploads/5886cf38ee.png Why are the boxes so wide? Do you have a very long text somewhere in the program combo? Chris ___

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Track parameter box

2006-06-19 Thread Luis Garrido
> Why are the boxes so wide? Do you have a very long text somewhere in the > program combo? > No. All the combos have a width that is roughly twice as much the necessary to accomodate the longest text in their popup list. It *might* be one of the colour names. I cannot cycle through all of them

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Track parameter box

2006-06-19 Thread Chris Cannam
On Monday 19 Jun 2006 14:07, Luis Garrido wrote: > It *might* be one of the colour names. I cannot cycle through all of > them because the combo won't react to the keyboard arrows while folded Folded? This sounds a bit like the old Fedora Bluecurve-specific report: http://sourceforge.net/tracker

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Track parameter box

2006-06-19 Thread Luis Garrido
> It had something to do with the Bluecurve theme trying to fold up the colour Aye, changing KDE theme to Plastik gained me 100 pixels (from 356 to 256) and now the combos display a scroll bar. Never been one to fool around with themes and colour schemes unless they are downright annoying. For th

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Track parameter box

2006-06-20 Thread Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
On Sunday, 18 June 2006 21:18, Luis Garrido wrote: > I thought I was clear in my suggestions but, sure, find here a mock-up of > them. > > http://www.picturetrunk.com/uploads/8f2842da2c.png I agree with a narrower layout. I don't like the white text on black backgroud. I prefer the tabbed solutio