Talk:Effect Menu

archive discussion

 * Peter 13Dec14: This page is now getting *very* long - to the point of TLDR and making it hard to navigate. At the very least it would benefit from a custom TOC - or we could consider breaking it up placing some of the detail on sub-pages - or even both.  Thoughts ...
 * Bill 13Dec2014: No kidding! Let's try the TOC to start with. As for moving stuff off this page, I can see moving Real-time Preview to its own page (which would need fleshing out with examples to make it worth while) and moving Register Plug-ins to Effects Preferences.
 * Peter 15Dec14: Ok Bill, I've tried out a Custom TOC (replacing in the process the old "Effect Classes" H2 section). I would strongly support moving the RTP to its own page as this would give you the benefit of being able to link to that page far any effect that supports RTP. I would strongly vote for also hiving off LV2, VST and Audio Unit sections onto their own pages, particularly as none of them has pre-supplied effects included with Audacity.
 * Bill 15Dec2014: I've moved the Register Plugins dialog to the Effects Preferences page. We'll see if the other editors like that. I've removed the "Install VST Plugins" section from this page (it's obsolete anyway, and most of it still exists on the Effects Preferences page). By all means hive off those four sections and we'll see how it looks. I assume you'll save this page in its current state somehow just in case everyone hates the separate pages. ;-)
 * Peter 16Dec14:Bill, I've hived off your RTP to its own page - no-one can really object to this (apart from you as the very recent creator of the page. I added links on this page to the new FTP page.  I think this page looks better without the RTP material on it, especially at the top of the page.  And looking at this page as it stands now with the custom TOC - I can't decide whether we should also be hiving off the LV2, VST and Audio Unit sections to their own pages.  I'm minded to do so because the average user will never see such things in the Effect menu.  But the page appears (to me at least) readable and navigable in spite of its length.