Talk:Proposal Effect Menu Categorization

Gale 07Sep12:

 * There must be some discussion of the mechanism by which users (particularly VI users) are going to customise the menus (move an effect in/out of root and how create a third or deeper level). VI users cannot drag and drop (if that is the method).
 * Can users override alphabetical ordering of each level? Can they rename an effect or a category or create their own categories? Can they move an effect out of Unsorted?
 * Format - specific:
 * Since we know that GVerb (due to be replaced by SoX reverb in 2.0.4), SC4 and Hard Limiter will be shipped with Audacity, they should be categorised, not "unsorted"
 * VST effects lack (and probably cannot have) any way to categorise them, but some Windows users have dozens of VST's. The current VST naming puts the vendor first. I strongly suggest this proposal includes putting the name of the VST effect first or dropping vendor from the menu listing.

Comment from Steve

 * Steve 5Sept12: If the menu has the capability for subfolders that the user can organize however they wish, then wouldn't that imply that the user can choose to put all of the effects in the root (top level) menu with no sub-menus defined? In effect that would be the same as "turning categorization off" so why the extra bullet-point?
 * Peter 6Sep12:Partly to help avoid a regression - and partly because I envisage Audacity being delivered with the effects already sensibly categorized, so in your schema the user would have to do a fair bit of work to get back to a single unified list - a switch is much simpler for the user.