Key: Too obvious, not obvious enough, about right

This is one of the worst config tabs, and it's the first one you see!

• Note name style (definitely)

• Audio preview scale (perhaps a bit)

• Base octave number

• Show tool context help in status bar (remind me why this is an option at all, again? I think it's just because I was too timid when implementing the feature)

• Use textured backgrounds on canvas areas – options like this can safely go in an Appearance tab because people will have no problem looking for them if they want to go changing the way it all looks

• Side-bar parameter box layout

• Default editor on double-click (should be right up at the top of the default tab)

• Number of count-in bars

• Always use default studio (not all that common to change, but not an option users will necessarily know to go hunting around for)

There is no reason for this to be its own tab.

• External audio editor

Likewise

• Enable auto-save

• Auto-save interval – this could usefully be a combo with several obvious options in it, I doubt if anyone really needs to enter the exact number of seconds. Off / 30 seconds / one minute / five minutes / ten minutes should do fine. Then we don't need the enable button.

• Sequencer status – but this may be OK hidden away if we merge the trayicon branch

• Send all MIDI controllers – a useful option; the first tab of the Sequencer page is probably an obvious enough place for it, but I want to highlight that it's again not something the user will necessarily think to look for

• Load SoundFont and associated options

• Start JACK automatically options. The tab is badly named, given that it only contains these options. I still think the options are intrinsically problematic.

• Audio mix and monitor mode – there's probably something to be said for removing this altogether

• Create post-fader outs – although if we had an Audio tab, these would be among the more obvious options to put in it

• Record audio files as…

• Sequencer timer

• JACK transport mode

• MIDI Clock/System

• MMC

• MTC

• Automatically connect sync output

• Various font options – this tab is generally OK I think

• Default layout mode

• Default spacing

• Default duration factor

These are debatable – if only the notation editor remembered your last setting, it probably wouldn't be necessary to have them as configuration options at all.

• Show non-notation events as question marks

• Show notation-quantized notes in different colour

• Show invisible events in grey

• Show notes outside playable range in red

• Show superimposed notes…

• Default note style – again, the notation editor could just remember this. I find it amazing that I bothered to make an option of it, looking back. I must have been bored.

• When inserting notes… – I think this option is wrong-headed, although I notice one user reported having used it. The proper options are “split notes” or “coerce new note to match existing notes” – but not to permit inserting a note overlapping other notes. This is bound up with voice support however

• Auto-beam on insert

• Collapse rests after erase

• Default paste type

This one's OK I think

This one is highly problematic because of the “After quantization” options incorrectly affecting playback and editing in non-notation views. That makes it sort of a recording option, but it's clear that these are intended to be completely notation-specific. Have to think about this.

• External audio editor. Default is Audacity; if MHWaveEdit or Rezound is available we should perhaps use one of those in preference (owing to better JACK support and, in MHWaveEdit's case, better workflow for quick edit/save turnaround).

• “After quantize” in notation/quantize. Should be made to do the minimum by default