UI Suggestion For Occasional Users

Hi PG…

This is a ‘power-user’ document which describes all the ways that Dreamweaver can be extended. Basically, you can create your own Toolbars, or Screen Layouts or ‘Commands’ (macros or code snippets).

Look, WL can do a -lot- of this. BUT… the user is always stuck in the ‘Wavelab Paradigm’. If you don’t know inside which ‘container’ (toolbar, specialised window) a particular gizmo is found, yer screwed. Similarly, if you don’t memorise certain basic ‘steps’, you’re also screwed. Basically, you’ve decided that people -must- really -learn- WL in order to be productive. And I think that’s a missed market opportunity for people like me (and Cubase users who always want Cubase to do more of what WL does—partly because they’re broke-ass musicians, but mostly because they don’t want to have to deal with the learning curve.)

So, I think that having a Toolbar For Dummies… where you can put buttons that take you directly to the functions I can never seem to remember… is the right way to go.

One key for this being useful is for it to do the function WITHOUT making me have to learn how the windows work. It’s gotta be like a ‘macro’ where it combines -all- the steps of (eg. selecting a clip, generating the markers and binding them to the clip).

The other key would be the ability to get the rest of the interface OUT OF THE WAY somehow.

Look, I know I’m asking for the moon here. It’s not reasonable to ask for a complete UI re-write. But the reason so many people -still- used the old Basic CD gizmo was because it was SIMPLE. You did NOT have to ‘learn’ Wavelab. That’s what we want: you keep trying to get us to ‘learn’ Wavelab so we can get to ‘the power’. Some of us DO NOT WANT THE POWER. :smiley: We just want 1-click ‘for dummies’ functionality.

Cheers.