Provide an option to turn off the thumbnail half in the Open File dialogue
This is a major annoyance (slowdown = annoying) for me:
The File Open dialogue consists of the “file” half (directory tree, list of files, and below that, filename and extension selection) and the thumbnail half.
The thumbnail is shown, forcibly, every time a file comes under the cursor. That means it is displayed even for MSCX files, for which it has to be (slowly) generated first.
Even if I double-click the file (which will immediately close the dialogue after the ten-second-or-so pause to generate the thumbnail, so I’m never seeing the just-generated, unwanted, thumbnail anyway).
Also, this makes the file half of the dialogue very small. Small enough most of my very descriptive, easier-to-recognise-than-some-thumbnails, filenames are not displayed in full (on my 1024x768 laptop display).
So, please provide an option to disable the thumbail half (enabling the file part to take up more space, and disabling on-the-fly thumbnail creation for non-MSCZ files). This option must persist in the configuration. There are two common places where this could be done:
① An additional button in the top part of the dialogue (where the back, up, etc. buttons are placed) is common, I believe especially in the Windows world?
② A regular MuseScore UI preference in the normal preferences dialogue would work
Either will help (do not implement both).
Comments
That option exists already: toggle 'useNativeDialogs' in the advanced settings (in 3.0) or my manually editing that setting the musescore.ini file (in 2.x).
At least I believe that option does make the difference here, it is set to true on Windows and no thumbnails are shown, it is set to false on Linux though, so Qt's file dialogs are used and those do show the thumbnails
In reply to that option exists already:… by Jojo-Schmitz
Oooooh, much⚠ better, thanks!
(The “native” dialogues are also Qt’s, apparently just without the thumbnails. If it’s just that difference, the option could be misnamed, but on other OSes, something like a native file open dialogue does exist, after all…)
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.