Bugs #88, 90, 91, 94 filed.
Question for the VST/SF2 dragging:
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.
Double-clicking does this already (adds it to a new beat/bassline editor),
I'm confused why drag functionality can't be added for .DLL extensions and
.SF2 extensions. What am I missing here?
-Tres
- [email protected]
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Tobiasz Karoń <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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