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dev:preferences_restructuring [2018/02/07 16:07]
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dev:preferences_restructuring [2022/05/06 16:07] (current)
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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 |
