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Gale Andrews wrote:

Edgar wrote:

Gale Andrews wrote:... if someone does look in About Audacity, probably they should see a link to Wiki rather than suggesting they come straight to Forum.

Unless it were thought to be offensive to our sponsors at SourceForge...label them:
SourceForge Audacity homepage: http://audacityteam.org/
Wiki Audacity homepage: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

Not a bad idea in itseIf but has several reasons against it:

* lack of space there
* confusion over the difference between the two sites:
- is Wiki a sponsor or domain host like Sourceforge?
- Doesn't explain the purpose of the Wiki

Gale

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Edgar wrote:

Edgar wrote:Unless it were thought to be offensive to our sponsors at SourceForge...label them:
SourceForge Audacity homepage: http://audacityteam.org/
Wiki Audacity homepage: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

Gale wrote: Not a bad idea in itseIf but has several reasons against it:

* lack of space there
* confusion over the difference between the two sites:
- is Wiki a sponsor or domain host like Sourceforge?
- Doesn't explain the purpose of the Wiki

Edgar wrote: I am looking at the Help/About Audacity... window right now. In answer to your "lack of space", I have a few thoughts.
*The window is of a fixed size -- not sizable by the user (why not)

Edgar wrote: *the window has a vertical scrollbar -- already there is more information than that which is possible to display without scrolling

Edgar wrote: *just in the information displayed before scrolling, there are 2 unnecessary carriage returns:

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Edgar wrote:
Audacity 1.3.10-alpha-Oct 10 2009 Development Team
[AND HERE]
James Crook
Vaughan Johnson

Edgar wrote:Please note that the line Audacity... Development Team is very long, in bold and centered, the developer's names are much shorter, not in bold and centered -- this is enough visual distinction between the heading and the items.

Edgar wrote: As for "is Wiki a sponsor or domain host like Sourceforge?", make the 2nd line ("A Free Digital Audio Editor) bold; identify the SourceForge link -- maybe something like:
Audacity's homepage at SourceForge: http://...
Audacity's Wiki page: http://...

As for "Doesn't explain the purpose of the Wiki", if it were thought necessary, a sentence might be added between the "... grateful to SourceForge..." and "Audacity is available..." sentences. My understanding is that the mere fact that it is a Wiki page creates an underlying understanding of its purpose -- the "purpose" of any Wiki page is to be something like a cross between a dictionary, encyclopedia and public message board.

Gale Andrews wrote:

Edgar wrote: *just in the information displayed before scrolling, there are 2 unnecessary carriage returns:

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Shouldn't #endif be on its own line?

Gale Andrews wrote:

Edgar wrote:
Audacity 1.3.10-alpha-Oct 10 2009 Development Team
[AND HERE]
James Crook
Vaughan Johnson

I could try it without the space but I'm not convinced it would look better given the use of space elsewhere.

Edgar wrote:Please note that the line Audacity... Development Team is very long, in bold and centered, the developer's names are much shorter, not in bold and centered -- this is enough visual distinction between the heading and the items.

I think that was Vaughan's design decision. I can try it your way.

Gale Andrews wrote:

Edgar wrote: *The window is of a fixed size -- not sizable by the user (why not)

You'll have to ask on -devel if you want a definitive answer, or play with the code yourself, but HTML windows like this in Audacity have always had limited functionality. Your help in overcoming those restrictions could be useful.

Edgar wrote:Please note that the line Audacity... Development Team is very long, in bold and centered, the developer's names are much shorter, not in bold and centered -- this is enough visual distinction between the heading and the items.

Gale Andrews wrote:I think that was Vaughan's design decision. I can try it your way.

Can we get Vaughan to jump in and give us the thoughts on his design decision? Did you try it or would you like me to hack up some code and post a picture?

Edgar wrote:Thank you for assigning me these little tasks -- I'm not quite up to tackling P1 bugs yet.

Gale Andrews wrote: I've got to add the names of the new Team members anyway, so I can add the missing link to the Wiki to even out the last sentence and try it with less spaces. Assuming you are subscribing to our cvs list, you will be notified when I commit that. I think more important is adding a route from Manual to Wiki and Forum, as discussed in this thread.

Edgar wrote:Thank you for assigning me these little tasks -- I'm not quite up to tackling P1 bugs yet.

P1s and P2s are not necessarily complex, they just have a higher priority.

Gale