In that post I mention the suggestion to offer keyboard shortcuts to toggle Solo, Mute and maybe even Record based on Regions / Range selections in the Editor timeline.
Currently there are keyboard shortcuts but they appear to only be “Track” box based.
So user has to click on the actual Track box to then use the keyboard shortcut which in that case seems like they would just click on the buttons themselves.
This would allow user to easily toggle these actions when working on Regions/Ranges in the Editor timeline.
I would find this very useful and am a little surprised that this is not currently available (as far as I know this is not possible?)
I was wondering if anyone else would be interested in this update as well?
Even better would be if there are any volunteer developers that would be willing to make this update mentioned?
I think what you’re asking about is having Ardour be able to sense which track the mouse pointer is over and allow the shortcuts to solo or mute that track. Is that correct?
If so, this is much like a feature called “Infix” that is available in the chip design CAD software I used in my real-life career. I can tell you that it occasionally resulted in unintentional actions that were difficult to reverse. Perhaps not so in this case. But I can say for sure that the feature was the source of many, many ever-so-passionate “religious” debates as to its usefulness.
I personally was always on the side of enabling the feature, and I can see that it would be desirable in Ardour. However I do guess that it would be a significant coding effort to implement, and might have its own set of unintended impacts.
This was the design I went for in the earliest days of Ardour development.
We moved away from it fairly quickly, and towards the single mantra “operation works on selection” (we’re not 100% there with that rule, but that is the rule).