Talk:Status Bar

Status Bar critique
Rolling over various elements of the GUI the Status Bar displays the same text as the rollover but not consistently and not for all element of the GUI. The punctuation in the messages is inconsistent. Many of the messages are unhelpful. Some are misleading depending on context. Errors are marked in red, recommendations in blue.

Mixer Toolbar
Playback and recording volumes are helpfully displayed in the Status Bar and in the rollover text.

Transport Toolbar
Status Bar displays the same as hover helps:
 * Pause (P)
 * Play/Loop Play (Shift and Space) - should say: Play(Space)/Loop Play (Shift and Space)
 * Gale 09Sep14: No - Play and Stop are accurate in the sense that there is no binding by default for the separate Play and Stop commands. You could argue that there should be no binding shown where none exists, or that those buttons should both show Play/Stop when separate Play and Stop are not allocated. See http://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643.
 * Peter 10Sep14: No - my point is that Loop play has "Space" explicitly written whereas Play and Stop don't they just have the pair of brackets "" which does not explain the binding. I would argue (agreeing with James) that no button hover texts should have shortcuts listed, as the button is itself a shortcut.
 * Gale 10Sep14: The separate "Play" and "Stop" bindings are not the same as the single "Play/Stop" binding. "Play" and "Stop" do not give the binding because by default they have no binding. Here is what happens if I add a binding for "Stop":
 * [[Image:Stop hover.png]]


 * Peter 11Sep14: Ah yes and I just fell into that particular bear-trap showing my "mystery shopper" how to set "Space" as her binding for "Stop and set cursor" - and then found that I could not reassign "Space" back to both Play and Stop. Instead I had to revert to defaults and then add back all my custom bindings ...
 * Peter 11Sep14: Aside: what I have done though is to set an easier custom binding than the two-key Ctrl+A for "Stop and set cursor", using the / (slash) key - which groups near my other custom bindings.
 * Stop : should say Stop (Space) - and sometimes says: Stop  (disabled) what is that all about
 * Skip to Start (Home)
 * Skip to End (End)
 * Record (R) / Append Record (Shift + R)

Tools Toolbar
Hovering over shows the same text in the Status Bar as the hover help, except for the tool that is currently in use/selected (same behavior for Status Bar and hover help.

Recommendation: It would be helpful if it said "xxx Tool (selected)" in the Status Bar and the hover help when hovering over the currently selected tool. Would probably be of particular help to VI users.

Edit Toolbar
Hovering over yields nothing in either the Status Bar or the hover help.
 * Peter 14Jun15: Actually the only thing that shows from the Edit Toolbar is the Sync-Lock tracks.

Transcription Toolbar
Status Bar and hover help just say "Playback Speed".

A single click (left, right or center) gives "Playback Speed: X.xx" - a double click brings up the assiated dialog box for precise rebview and setting.

Device Toolbar
Rollover gives the items and their current state - nothing in the Status Bar

Timeline
No rollover text and nothing in the Status Bar.

Track Control Panel
There is no rollover text on rollover.

The Status Bar says " Drag the track vertically to change the order of the tracks."
 * '''It says this when there is only one track - and thus is nonsensical.
 * '''It says this when playing or recording when no tracks can be moved.

Tracks
Rollover yields in both rollover text and Status Bar "Click and drag to select audio" - note that the punctuation is inconsistent here, no full-stop.

Selection Toolbar
Rollover gives no Status Bar display.

Status Bar
No rollover text and no Status Bar display when rolling over the Status Bar.

Actual Rate
No rollover text and no Status Bar display when rolling over the Actual Rate.

Menu items
No rollover text and no Status Bar display when rolling over the menu items: File, Edit, View etc.