(I know it is probably too late to make any changes but just curious)
Ardour has a category in its Menu Bar called Window where all the different Ardour floating windows can be opened from.
Yet, Preferences is under the Edit drop down.
I am aware that some applications do the same where Preferences/Settings are in the Edit drop down, but often they do not use the Window drop down in the way that Ardour does.
Granted I can understand that it makes Preferences easy to find/access because it is at the bottom of the Edit drop down, especially for any users who do not assign a shortcut to Preferences window.
But other then that, why would Preferences not be in the Window drop down with all the other floating window items?
Lua Scripts flyout is also at the bottom of the Edit window.
This one I guess falls a little in between, but in its default state all three items open up windows as well, such as the Script Manager.
So also wonder if this would be in the Window drop down as well.
Again developers/users probably are not going to change this, but was just curious because of how Ardour uses the Window drop down.
Preferences is in the “Windows” category as well as in the “Edit” category.
To make things even weirder, I always use Edit / Preferences when I want to change hardware controller settings, but for any other settings I use Windows / Preferences. I don’t know why.
Yup, it’s basicaly the standard.
Almost all pro audio/video applications use this way.
On the other hand…
If you ask me, i’d put anything a user can change (layout, themes, keyboard shortcuts, default/prefered file locations etc…) in a separate menu and simply call it “settings” or “user settings” an get it over with…
But hey, different opinions of prefered choices have to stop somewhere.
Thank you guys for the responses.
Edit them, really? I did not even know that that was possible.
Ahh but it is in the installed folder, not in a .config folder, so I would just have to remember this.
Yeah like I said (as many of you have mentioned as well) I was not saying that Edit is not common for this, but I have also not seen many applications offer so many window based items in their Window drop downs so I was just curious why this windowed item was in a separate location.
Yeah on occassion I have even seen some applications use their File drop down for this.
Anyways, can edit them, good to know, I am going to put that on my list of things to mess around with in the future.