Re: [jokosher-devel] [PATCH] Fixed solo button behaviour

["Peteris Krisjanis" <pecisk gmail com>]

2007/6/20, Nick Murtagh <nickmurtagh gmail com>:
> On 20/06/07, Peteris Krisjanis <pecisk gmail com> wrote:
> > I strongly disagree that it is un-discoverable. Everyone who have
> > worked with computer for some time knows that CTRL is multiple
> > selection.
>
> Well what I mean is that there is no visual indication that you can solo
> more than one track in this situation, so the user would only find the
> feature through luck or random clicking.
>
> Besides, Ctrl-clicking is pretty nasty...

Ctrl-clicking and Ctr+Alt+clicking is usual way of doing things in
professional apps, and besides, there is no visual indicators about
that, just a little tooltips. Try Photoshop for example.

So I think tooltip informing about such possibility is enough.

> > My pick about usability of Jokosher is that we are trying to achieve
> > some new ground here. Staying with old errors (like multiple solo
> > selections *by default*), in my opinion, is not right. For information
> > and avoiding confusion we could have tool tip on button Solo, which
> > informs about possibility to select multiple channels with CTRL.
>
> I agree, which is why I proposed removing solo in place of "Mute All Tracks" /
> "Unmute All Tracks" buttons - in this model it's obvious from the mute status
> of each track what should be playing.

I disagree with this one. 'Solo', IMHO, is shorter and easer concept
to grasp, 'mute/unmute all tracks', however, is not.

I don't know, propably someone should pick this and try both variants
for testing sake.

Peter.