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Text editing: there is no way to hide text widget and stay in text-edit mode

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    text_editting.zip
  2. Try to edit a lyric.

There seems to be no way to hide the text-editing widget while remaining in text-edit mode. Pressing Esc simply closes the widget and leaves text-edit mode, and there is no other way to simply hide the widget.

Suggestion

Have a cross symbol on the widget to hide it, while remaining in text-edit mode.

Note:: There is actually a workaround which is also a bug. If you scroll the mouse while the widget is open, the widget closes and you can edit the text without it..

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See above.

In which versions of MuseScore Studio is this issue present?

MuseScore Studio version (64-bit): 4.6.0-252730944, revision: github-musescore-musescore-7829779

Regression

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Operating system

OS: Linux Mint 21, Arch.: x86_64,

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