Proposal Improvements to the Manage Effects/Generators/Analyzers GUI
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This proposal is a spin-off from Bug #1018
The Problem
Gale 09Jun15:
- Gives an impression of too many controls to "see the wood for the trees" while not being all that easy to use.
- No one-step way to just select all the shipped effects.
- No one-step way to revert to only the enabled shipped effects.
- Checkbox selection could still be useful - not all users know how to SHIFT-select or CONTROL-select.
- SHIFT-selection is wrong on Mac or Linux - pressing the opposite-direction arrow key does nothing, then finally adds items instead of removing them. Widgets issue?
- No seek by typed letter on Mac or Linux.
- If you have more than a few dozen effects it is very hard to see what you are doing and where an effect is in the list.
- Should there be a "Type of effect" column?
- Should there be a search box for effect name?
- Can we sort mixed case as even case-sensitive OS'es do, not lower case at the bottom?
- Too much RSI to enable/disable. Right-click over selected row(s) > Enable or Disable would help a *lot*.
Peter 09Jun15: As the person who has been using this facility fairly extensively in the course of documenting it for the Manual, I basically have to disagree with Gale here regarding steps 1, 8 and 7.
1) I found it a readily understandable and usable interface. The documentation page is quite short and I believe quite sufficient.
8) As it's a one-off or at worst a seldom-used piece of functionality "RSI" shouldn't really enter into it. This is a set-up task which yo do and then forget about most of the time.
7) I didn't find it too hard to find what I was looking for - may be harder on Mac give Gale's points 6 and 5 I guess.
- Gale: 09Jun15: Thanks, for adding this page, Peter. One of my mystery shoppers adds effects most days or sometimes several times a day. He gave the RSI comment. Perhaps Peter does not have many effects in all the different classes? That surely is the acid test of this GUI.
Proposed Feature
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GUI Examples
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Previous Feature Requests relating to this proposal
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