musescore / musescore/MuseScore
Percussion UI needs improvement
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Description
Your idea
I don't like the percussion interface in its current state. It takes up too much space and blocks off a large chunk of the left side panels with the palettes and properties. Having the layout set to 4 columns doesn't even make a difference; it in fact wastes more space than needed.
Problem to be solved
Just a simple resizing of the percussion interface layout would make light years of a difference. The green box is a suggestion of how I think this UI should appear, with the left-side panel fully visible.
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Research direction
Start by locating the percussion interface and the left-side palettes and properties panels in the desktop application, then compare the current layout with the attached screenshot. Done means the percussion interface uses space more efficiently, the left-side panel remains fully visible, and a four-column layout no longer wastes space.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- design, desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100