On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Nicolas wrote:
> I was too a bit surprised by the change. At first, when moving the
> cursor on the timeline, I wasn't able to do NOT select a part of the
> video. All I wanted was to see the flashing insertion point, without any
> selection.
> Fortunately, minmax helped me on the IRC, and he advised me to move the
> insertion point by clicking on the upper part of the main screen, where
> the time is displayed.

I too haven't had much chance to test the change, but this sure doesn't
seem like a good thing to me.  When I sync things to a audio track, I want
to set the insertion point by clicking on or very near the sound waveform.
If I have to click on the time bar at the top in order to get a click
instead of a drag, that's going to sharply increase the amount of cursing
I do while using Cinelerra.  And isn't the time bar already pretty much
occupied by labels?  If it's going to be hard to avoid clicking on a
nearby label instead of the point I want, that will also suck.

If you just removed drag'n'drop mode entirely, that would be better than
this.  I almost never use drag'n'drop mode and wouldn't miss it.
However, I wouldn't advocate doing that, because I'm aware that some
people do like to use drag'n'drop mode.

What if instead, the drag'n'drop/normal setting were made less accessible,
so that it would be less likely for people to change it without knowing
what they're doing?
-- 
Matthew Skala
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