Much needed changes. Especially defaulting to SDL under Windows - always
makes people go "what the &#^$%%?".
2014/1/21 Tres Finocchiaro <[email protected]>
> 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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