Placement of menus; Saving
Reported version
4.x-dev
Type
Ergonomical (UX)
Frequency
Many
Severity
S4 - Minor
Reproducibility
Always
Status
by design
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
This happens too often and it's irritating: I aim to click the File menu but hit the Home button below instead. I think the Home | Score | Publish needs to sit elsewhere.
I miss a Save button up there too. Saving via File > Save is cumbersome as is CTRL+S (I use mouse by left hand).
Comments
See https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/15426, got denied by Tantacrul as being a thing of the 90's :-(
Now he even blocked further discussion there
Came up before in https://musescore.org/en/node/338612
Hear, hear! I'm baffled by the removal of the Save button. At least give the option to enable it as a custom toolbar or something for those who want it or feel it's practical to have.
The argument that it's somehow an archaic throwback is absurd.
It is absurd indeed. But Open Source is not democracy
Tantacrul, may I remind you that you spent 2:22 talking about how the four icons New, Open, Save and Print look next to each other? https://youtu.be/4hZxo96x48A?t=498
But now that you fixed them you don't even allow the sensible among us to use them with one click like one does?
Oh yeah, but now we have Home, Score and Publish. These are so much more important because we only click them once in a blue moon. (I know other software has this layout too. But everyone copying the dumb thing doesn't make it less dumb.)
The solution is so simple: Add it to the toolbar (hidden by default) and let the user choose.