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preferences_restructuring [2008/05/01 11:16]
cannam created |
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| =====Which options are too obvious; which are not obvious enough; which are about right?===== | |
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| Key: //Too obvious//, **not obvious enough**, about right | |
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| ====General/Presentation==== | |
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| This is one of the worst config tabs, and it's the first one you see! | |
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| * //Note name style// (definitely) | |
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| * //Audio preview scale// (perhaps a bit) | |
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| * Base octave number | |
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| * //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) | |
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| * //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 | |
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| * Side-bar parameter box layout | |
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| ====General/Behaviour==== | |
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| * **Default editor on double-click** (should be right up at the top of the default tab) | |
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| * Number of count-in bars | |
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| * **Always use default studio** (not **all** that common to change, but not an option users will necessarily know to go hunting around for) | |
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| ====General/External Editors==== | |
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| There is no reason for this to be its own tab. | |
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| * **External audio editor** | |
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| ====General/Auto-save==== | |
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| Likewise | |
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| * Enable auto-save | |
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| * 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. | |
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| ====Sequencer/General==== | |
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| * **Sequencer status** -- but this may be OK hidden away if we merge the trayicon branch | |
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| * **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 | |
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| * Load SoundFont and associated options | |
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| ====Sequencer/Startup==== | |
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| * Start JACK automatically options. The tab is badly named, given that it only contains these options. I still think the options are intrinsically problematic. | |
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| ====Sequencer/Record and Mix==== | |
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| * //Audio mix and monitor mode// -- there's probably something to be said for removing this altogether | |
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| * Create post-fader outs -- although if we had an Audio tab, these would be among the more obvious options to put in it | |
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| * Record audio files as... | |
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| ====Sequencer/Synchronisation==== | |
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| * Sequencer timer | |
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| * **JACK transport mode** | |
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| * MIDI Clock/System | |
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| * MMC | |
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| * MTC | |
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| * Automatically connect sync output | |
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| ====Notation/Font==== | |
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| * Various font options -- this tab is generally OK I think | |
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| ====Notation/Layout==== | |
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| * **Default layout mode** | |
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| * Default spacing | |
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| * Default duration factor | |
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| 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. | |
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| * Show non-notation events as question marks | |
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| * Show notation-quantized notes in different colour | |
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| * Show invisible events in grey | |
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| * Show notes outside playable range in red | |
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| * Show superimposed notes... | |
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| ====Notation/Editing==== | |
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| * 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. | |
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| * 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 | |
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| * Auto-beam on insert | |
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| * Collapse rests after erase | |
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| * Default paste type | |
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| ====Accidentals==== | |
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| This one's OK I think | |
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| ====Quantize==== | |
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| 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. | |
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| ==== ==== | |
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| =====We can improve the defaults for===== | |
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| * 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). | |
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| * "After quantize" in notation/quantize. Should be made to do the minimum by default | |
