musescore / musescore/MuseScore

Adding articulations in the Palettes tab deselects the current selection, and you have to manually delete each articulation from individual notes

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Description

Issue type

UX/interaction

Description with steps to reproduce
  1. Create a new score.
  2. Add any type of notes.
  3. Apply articulations like staccatissimo, staccato, or anything else from the palettes tab.
  4. The entire bar gets deselected, and you must manually remove articulations one by one by clicking on each and deleting them individually.
Supporting files, videos and screenshots

As you can see, it's not an issue in the "engraving tab" you can easily remove the stacatto/any markings on the engraving tab but not in articulation palettes.
Mac is untested but I'm certain this affects all.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c6626e27-ace1-40bf-8ba8-bdd51d16b180

What is the latest version of MuseScore Studio where this issue is present?

MuseScore 4.4.1

Regression

I was unable to check

Operating system

Windows 11

Additional context

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Research direction

Reproduce the issue in MuseScore Studio 4.4.1 on Windows 11 using a new score, selected notes, and articulations from the Palettes tab. Compare the palette behavior with the Engraving tab and trace the selection and articulation-removal handling. Done means articulations can be removed from the current selection without deleting them individually.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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