musescore / musescore/MuseScore
Horizontal zoom level for timeline
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Description
Your idea
Allow the user to choose the width of the timeline bar length as a percentage of the default, or the whole score, just like the current zoom controls for the score window itself.
Each bar would either reduce in width (percentages below 100%) or expand (percentages above 100%), or be set to an automatic width to accommodate all bars in the score. The existing landmarks in the top section would retain enough width to display their text, just as they do now, to keep them clickable.
Problem to be solved
The timeline is useful as a navigation aid, but when it also has to scroll, it becomes less useful to me.
Prior art
This is the automatic state of the timeline in Sibelius.
Additional context
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Contributor guide
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
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Research direction
Start by locating the timeline implementation and the existing score-window zoom controls. Compare how timeline bars and top-section landmarks determine their widths, then define completion as configurable horizontal scaling or automatic width without making landmark text unreadable or unclickable.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100