Roger. I'll get filing.
On Jan 21, 2014 3:33 AM, "Tobias Doerffel" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> 2014/1/21 Tres Finocchiaro <[email protected]>
>
>>
>> - (Windows) Installer (Windows included) should have a shortuct with
>> "LMMS" in the name so it can be searched for easier.
>>
>>
> Ok, please file a bug.
>
>
>>
>> - (Windows) Windows installer should default to SDL. We get a lot of
>> Facebook messages because the default PortAudio is selected, which
>> produces
>> unbearable sound.
>>
>> I always expected PortAudio to be better but if SDL seems to work better
> we can change the order in which sound backends are tried. Can you also
> please file a bug?
>
>
>>
>> - (All platforms) VSTs should be drag-and-drop. Right Click --> Open
>> in new instrument-track/Song Editor works, but is inconstant with samples.
>> (should they be imported from the samples folder? that's probably a
>> separate conversation...)
>>
>> Not so easy if we want to keep our code clean and generic. What however
> is possible is to drag VSTs onto existing VeSTige instruments.
>
>
>>
>> - (All platforms) SoundFonts should be drag-and-drop. Same story as
>> VSTs. Note: Double-clicking these opens them in beat/bassline editor,
>> which is rarely my use-case.
>>
>>
> Same as VST.
>
>
>>
>> - (Windows and Possibly GTK desktops) The File --> Open Dialog on
>> Windows lacks some common folder shortcuts on the left. For starters, My
>> Documents and Desktop would be a huge improvement over "My Computer",
>> (many
>> users can't effectively navigate to much via "My Computer" since Microsoft
>> makes the whole "home" folder mostly hidden from common dialogs). I know
>> this is normally a QT/KDE preference, but a user can drag these shortcuts
>> in manually. Can these be automated by the installer?
>>
>>
> This is mainly a Qt issue. According to the documentation for QFileDialog
> it's possible to add custom URLs (setSideBarUrls()) so we should be able to
> add basic paths. Can you please file a bug?
>
>
>> - (All platforms) The first time the piano roll is opened, it seems
>> to be about an octave (or perhaps 3/4 of an octave) too low. What I mean
>> is, you preview an instrument at it's "A" note, but when you open that
>> piano roll up and click on the first "A" you see, it's an octave too low.
>> Does that make sense?
>>
>> So the scrollbar initially should be at a different position? If so,
> simply file a bug as well.
>
>
>> -
>>
>> May or may not be easy to fix:
>>
>> - Files opened with Windows Explorer get added to "Recent" in the
>> Task Manager, but Files opened with the File, Open dialog do not. This
>> means there is two different "Recent" lists depending on how the files are
>> opened. Making this consistent would help users with different workflows
>> in terms of opening projects/files.
>>
>>
> Same here. Qt uses its own dialogs for QFileDialogs (except if we use
> simple ones called by static methods) so its hard to get a consistent
> behaviour here.
>
>
> Generally: if you and others file bugs at Github please keep in mind: one
> item, one bug! People tend to report multiple issues/feature requests in
> one item which is very hard to handle afterwards if we e.g. fixed one of
> the listed issues.
>
> Toby
>
>
>
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