musescore / musescore/MuseScore

Change title of "Select similar" to be specific

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Description

Your idea

When a note is selected, the context menu item "Select similar" should instead read "Select all notes", and so forth for "Select all rests", "Select all articulations" etc.

Alternatives:

  • Select all notes
  • Select notes
  • Select similar (all notes)
Problem to be solved

I'm not very familiar with this feature, and it's really not clear to me as a user how similar is "similar". Making the title explicitly spell out what would be selected would help.

(I also don't think "select similar" is a very accurate way of describing the outcome of selecting every single note in the entire piece.)

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Research direction

Start by locating the desktop context-menu implementation and the existing "Select similar" label. Check how the menu is presented for notes, rests, and articulations, then update the wording so each item states what will be selected and verify the labels in those contexts.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
design, desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
68/100

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