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Key signature editing: UI is unhelpful #18119

Open BenWiederhake opened 1 year ago

BenWiederhake commented 1 year ago

Your idea

Creating and manipulating key signatures, even in their simplest form, is unnecessarily difficult. Each point individually is not a big deal, but as a whole they were annoying enough to make me write this list.

Don't get me wrong: It's great that the tool exists, and it seems to produce the correct results. I'm just noting that what seems like a simple drag-drop at first glance causes surprisingly much friction.

Problem to be solved

Take a look at me trying to add a reasonably okay-ish (possibly even "normal"?) key signature:

https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/assets/2690845/1b1d7162-8799-4b84-a583-9151d1183811

Currently, when adding a key signature, there several things that can be improved:

Prior art

Comparison Before: Bildschirmfoto_2023-06-22_16-02-41

Comparison "After", using way too much paint, just to demonstrate that making the staff larger would make it visually easier, and removing the unnecessary UI components doesn't even hurt: Bildschirmfoto_2023-06-22_15-50-29

Additional context

From the "About" dialog: OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm), Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore version (64-bit): 4.0.2-230651545, revision: github-musescore-musescore-dbe7c6d (This seems to be the identical binary to what's on the official download page)

The weird black borders around tooltips are an unrelated issue (15399).

bkunda commented 1 year ago

Thanks for this! It's definitely been on our radar for some time and we'll be aiming to address it in a forthcoming release.