Proposal Edit Menu Reorganization

Developer/QA Backing

 * Gale for the proposed Edit Menu (I recognise that which items should be removed and where they move to may be debated).

Edit Menu

 * "Remove Audio or Labels" sub-menu removed (all its items are back in root).
 * "Paste Text to New Label" and "Labeled Audio" sub-menu moved to new "Labels" menu.
 * "Region" and "Play Region" sub-menus moved to View Menu.
 * Items that operate on the clipboard grouped together.
 * Items that only work on audio selection grouped together.
 * Focus on "core" editing functions with same length as current Edit Menu.


 * [[Image:proposed edit menu.png]]

View Menu

 * Added "Region" and "Play Region" (the "Region" submenu items say "Capture" and "Restore", instead of "Save" and "Restore"). There is strong user interest in making "Region" respect the zoom level and horizontal position that was captured. If that is implemented then Region makes even more sense in View Menu.


 * This menu now becomes quite long, but History could possibly be moved to a new Tools Menu or "Play Region" could perhaps be moved to Transport Menu.
 * [[Image:proposed view menu.png]] [[Image:proposed view region.png]]

Tracks Menu

 * "Add Label at Selection", "Add Label at Playback Position" and "Edit Labels" moved to new "Labels" menu. Most of the items in this menu now say "Tracks".


 * [[Image:proposed tracks menu.png]]

Labels Menu (new)

 * The first three items in this menu all create a new "label" (even if there are no tracks).


 * Labeled Audio acts on audio of labeled regions (multiple labels can be included in the selection). This item is specialised and probably not well understood, and there is a desire to replace it with mouse-driven multi-label selection with corresponding multi-label features added to Labels Editor. Moving Labeled Audio out of Edit Menu could make it clearer that these items operate differently than the comparably named items in root of Edit Menu (that is, clearer that what you select (labels) are not affected by the menu action). If Labeled Audio is replaced with mouse-driven multiple select, its place could be taken with new items in this menu to make it easier to delete, merge/split or move labels using the keyboard (it is notably unintuitive now to delete point labels using Edit Menu). Such items could also or instead be right-click context menu items when over label tracks.


 * [[Image:proposed labels menu .png]]