musescore / musescore/MuseScore

Adjust tab order for handles on hairpins

Open
#33,632 1 comment 0 reactions 2 assignees View on GitHub

@shoogle is already working on this.

Since May 29, 2026.

P3 UX/interaction
Dominant language
C++
Stars
15.1k
Forks
3.3k
Avg merge
2d 2h
Merged PRs (30d)
91

Description

Your idea

In most editing scenarios hairpin aperture height is less likely to be adjusted than left/right offset. Therefore it should be the last rather than the first handle to be selected (after the initial center handle) when cycling through with tab.

Current order: center handle -> height -> left handle -> right handle
Suggested order: center handle -> left handle -> right handle -> height

Consider how this might affect accessibility.

Problem to be solved

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c1f86893-4b6b-4c0f-9ed1-63ed04694a33

Prior art

No response

Additional context

No response

Checklist
  • This request follows the guidelines for reporting issues
  • I have verified that this feature request has not been logged before, by searching the issue tracker for similar requests

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Assessment

This issue has not been assessed yet.

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.