Add a Desktop shortcut in the Open File dialog [trunk]

• Oct 21, 2011 - 10:09
Reported version
2.1
Type
Graphical (UI)
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Status
closed
Project
MuseScore

This panel that is the "Open" panel from MuseScore DESPERATELY needs a "Desktop" shortcut icon.

It is SO time consuming to have to browse for the so obvious Desktop location. That's what people work with the most.

Please DO add this in a future MuseScore nightly.

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• Oct 21, 2011 - 13:32

Changed the title.
I personally don't like the new Open File dialog in MuseScore Trunk and I prefer the native one. The current one is often very slow. So my first move is to change the preferences to the native one in Edit -> Preferences -> General.

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• Oct 21, 2011 - 13:34

I also find it very bizarre and non-intuitive. I do know the path to get the desktop but haven't gone through the change you did to get the native dialog back.

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• Oct 21, 2011 - 15:33

Please set that as default in MuseScore 2, it is such an incremental and obvious thing it should have already been a given.

Whoever designed that must have been a Mac OS user, those are the most GUI unproductive OS's... Windows 95 has had features that Mac OS X still doesn't have to this day, not to mention the hoards of Unix-like operating systems that are squat when it comes to GUI productivity which is spelled out FREEDOM of movement window-wise.

How I HATE GUI non-intuitiveness.......

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• Oct 21, 2011 - 18:18
Title Add a Desktop shortcut in the Open File dialog ⇒ Add a Desktop shortcut in the Open File dialog [trunk]

We'll do a major UI overhaul on the trunk at a certain point. So we won't fix this right away, but we'll do them all in one batch.

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