On Sunday, September 18, 2011, Ian Gardner wrote: > Incidentally, that "undo twice" bug/quirk/feature is not new to linked > segments. You have to undo twice to fully undo an ordinary segment copy > operation also.
Now that you mention it, I've been ignoring that quirk for years, and I knew about it. That probably means nobody will notice or care very much if you simply ignore my previous comment and leave well enough alone on that front. As far as showing what is connected to what, that does get a bit complicated. You could make quite a mess of losing track of what is connected to what, but it's hard to conceive of a really good mechanism for showing this. I guess for starters, being able to change the labels on each linked segment independently is a bit confusing. I start with "Piano" and link copy it to another "Piano" then change the latter to something else, and I've lost track of any idea where it came from originally, and that it's linked to something else. Linked copies should probably keep the same label as their parents until they become real copies. That and showing linked copies in a different fill style might be just narrowly sufficient. You see a segment in the "not a real segment" fill style, and you see the name. Users could set up color and label properties to help themselves keep track of what from what, although lazy users just flinging things willy nilly will wind up with a passel of yellow "Acoustic Grand Piano" segments with no discernible interrelationship. I don't think there's a lot we can do to discourage that kind of problem, really. The tools are there, but Rosegarden can't do everything for you. If we tried to, say, change the base color on the linked segments to some variation of the parent, somebody (me, as likely as anyone else!) would be upset that it didn't flow nicely with their pretty color scheme. -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
