Top Usability Issues

This page is for listing of usability matters with the software that impact on many users. Typically, these will be "issues" rather than "bugs", with no explicit item yet on Release Checklist. Or they could be existing disparate bugs where a holistic approach to fixing them could be beneficial.

Detailed discussions of issues should generally be moved to proposal pages with a link from here. In motivating a usability issue, linking to the manual to indicate how a usability issue is currently explained for users can help motivate the call for a change.

Edit Hint: Links to the pages in the manual wiki which show why explaining is tricky could help.

Copy-in versus aliasfiles for uncompressed audio

Use of audio by reference (faster) vs copy audio into project (safer) is confusing, and can lead users to lose projects, e.g. by deleting audio they think they no longer need.

• James 22Jan10: See the new proposal page and related talk page.

Save and export confusion

Some users don't realise that export is needed to save audio in non .aup formats.

• Gale 21Jan10: See Proposal Menu Reorganisation for details and make further detailed comments about a re-organisation solution there.