Re: [jokosher-devel] [PATCH] Fixed bug #119700 and removed RecView/MixerStrip control button redundancy

[Laszlo Pandy <laszlok2 gmail com>]

Jono Bacon wrote:
> Not sure if it is related to this merge, but the current workspace
> buttons seem to be broken and don't toggle between the different
> views. The previous behaviour makes sense to me - click the button for
> the right view.
>
>   Jono

That was actually the last patch john sent to the mailing list. The 
buttons no longer toggle *between* the views, they now just toggle each 
view individually. I know this is deviating from your original spec, and 
I know that it seems weird but we are trying it out as there are several 
advantages to this way.

This way allows you to remove the redundant recording view inside 
compact mix view (which was bad for implementation reasons and because 
you couldn't see only the compact mix view). Now the user can choose if 
they want each view visible or not.

Also this allows us to incorporate another view such as the shelf which 
doesn't have a use case to be visible on its own. You will be able to 
toggle the shelf to have it come up underneath the recording view. The 
shelf can then be used to drag clips on and off the recording view. This 
would not work with the old workspace design.

This is an experiment which is not complete yet so we won't be changing 
the behaviour back right away. That said, we would like to find a 
solution that works in the ways I described above and makes sense to 
everybody.

Laszlo