musescore / musescore/MuseScore

Please reenable Alt+Spacebar (quick Minimize/Maximize)

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Description

Your idea

[I imagine this applies only to Windows versions of MS]

When you press Alt+Spacebar in MuseScore, the normal window-action menu appears—but for some reason, its "Minimize" and "Maximize" commands are disabled (grayed out). Thus I feel like a goofball each time I instinctively press Alt+Space, then N (Mi_n_imize) or X (Ma_x_imize). Which I do a lot, because that's how virtually every other Windows program works.

So unless you've intentionally disabled these commands, how about enabling them? 🙏

Problem to be solved

Having to grope for the mouse and zero in on icons each time to minimize or maximize a score, rather than using quick key combinations

Prior art

As mentioned, most other apps don't interfere with this.

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Research direction

No source file or test is identified in the issue. Reproduce the disabled Minimize and Maximize commands with Alt+Spacebar on Windows, then trace the desktop window-action handling. Done means both commands are enabled and the standard Alt+Space, N/X shortcuts work without regressions.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Clearly specified
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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