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How can the Peak Meter be disabled?

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saratoga:

--- Quote from: Marcel on April 05, 2013, 03:07:38 PM ---
--- Quote from: AlexP on April 05, 2013, 02:38:52 PM ---Very poor design?  Please
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Yes. Needing to edit a configuration file to disable a feature is very poor design. This is 2013, not 1993.

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Its not a configuration file, its the theme you've installed.  Its not feasible for you to edit themes on a device with a couple buttons, so you should do that on PC. 

Marcel:

--- Quote from: AlexP on April 05, 2013, 03:22:06 PM ---You don't need to edit a configuration file.  You chose to use a theme with a peak meter, that was your choice.  Should we also provide a config option to not use ID3 tags?  To show a progress bar or not?  This is the point of a theme, to set these options.

Manners would also help.

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It find it bizarre that you are even making such an argument. There is no good design reason not to include an override to disable the peak meter in Settings/General Settings/Display/Peak Meter whether a particular theme has it or not. Telling a user to choose another theme or go edit it on a PC is a cop-out.

saratoga:

--- Quote from: Marcel on April 06, 2013, 12:45:37 AM --- There is no good design reason not to include an override to disable the peak meter in Settings/General Settings/Display/Peak Meter whether a particular theme has it or not.
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We may have actually had this setting at one point, I can't remember.  But no, it doesn't make sense to include it now given how themes work.  If you disable it you're just going to make theme look weird, or else force themers to design their theme around multiple possible settings.  This isn't good design. 

Marcel:

--- Quote from: saratoga on April 06, 2013, 01:03:22 AM ---If you disable it you're just going to make theme look weird
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Huh? It would just make the area where the peak meter would appear empty. As there already are UI options to configure it with a number of parameters, there should also be one to turn it off. Just straightforward UI design to give a user the option to do so.

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: Marcel on April 06, 2013, 12:45:37 AM ---There is no good design reason not to include an override to disable the peak meter in Settings/General Settings/Display/Peak Meter whether a particular theme has it or not.
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And then having to handle user complaints / "bug" reports because the "peak meter doesn't work even if the theme enables them"?. No thanks.

Just because you don't like a decision that has been made years ago (and nobody complained!) doesn't make it "bad design". I would like to disable this "select whole line (but context menu only if you're on the filename)" feature in Windows Explorer's "details" view but there's no option to do so. Does this make it "bad design"?

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