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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0001337 | ardour | bugs | public | 2006-11-22 13:00 | 2009-07-05 20:43 |
| Reporter | thorwil | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | acknowledged | Resolution | open | ||
| Summary | 0001337: Input/Output popup menu connection items don't reflect current state in some cases | ||||
| Description | Take for example a mono channel, where the options below "Edit" and "Disconnect" are "In 1" and "In 2". After selecting "Edit" and hooking up both inputs in the dialog, the 2 items are unchecked, making it look like no such connection are active. The Popup items should be checked/unchecked to reflect the current state at all times. One can easily switch from both/all connected to only one channel via the popup items, but not back again. To solve this issue, it should be possible to enable more than 1 of the items by use of ctrl-clicking, to also maintain the current fast selection ability without having to uncheck items manualy. Closely related: the naming of the items is confusing, as the user has to make the mental connection between things like "In 1" and "alsa_pcm:capture_1". | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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no, there is a more central issue here. "In 1" is *not* alsa_pcm:capture_1. Its a "Connection" object called "In 1" that just happens to include a single port with a connection to alsa_pcm:capture_1. There is no Connection editor any more, so this point is somewhat lost. The checking of the items in the lower part of the menu indicate "This I/O is using this specific Connection", which is not the same as "This I/O is connected to alsa_pcm:foobar_N". If no items are checked, the IO object wasn't hooked up via a specific Connection, but by manual selection of destinations/sources. So, I think this is just a documentation/labelling issue. Agree? |
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I wasn't able to build a correct mental model. Asking in #ardour while Paul wasn't around revealed nobody was sure about the nature of what appears in the popups. Aside from that, yes I guess it's 'just' documentation/labeling. This stuff should be rethought when it's time for the routing matrix. |
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Is this still an issue in recent versions of Ardour? I wasn't able to follow the comments precisely, and I am not sure if it still even applies without the connection editor. |
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It still seems to be the same. It still doesn't make the tiniest bit of sense to me. |
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Ok removing this from feedback at least since it has been given. Still not completely following the comments, maybe A3 will improve on this though with the revamped connections. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2006-11-22 13:00 | thorwil | New Issue | |
| 2006-12-20 21:16 | paul | Note Added: 0002945 | |
| 2006-12-20 21:16 | paul | Status | new => feedback |
| 2006-12-21 17:02 | thorwil | Note Added: 0002947 | |
| 2009-07-05 02:21 | seablade | Note Added: 0006285 | |
| 2009-07-05 02:21 | seablade | Description Updated | |
| 2009-07-05 08:43 | thorwil | Note Added: 0006338 | |
| 2009-07-05 20:43 | seablade | Note Added: 0006351 | |
| 2009-07-05 20:43 | seablade | Status | feedback => acknowledged |
