Minimum width of "Note" and "Ambitus" Inspector has increased significantly

You're probably right in the reasoning.
So it is by design, I guess

But also I think we should find a way to make the inspector narrower again.

I'm still not sure what causes this, but it is not those extra dotted note option that had been added in the "Select" section, I tested that just now.
More likely the added note head types, which need the popup menu to be come wider, esp. for "Slashed bottom left to top right" and "Slashed top left to bottom right".
Tested that too, by shorting those strings and indeed this seems the cause.

And with that I'm affraid this really is by design.
Only thing we may do is shorten those strings, to e.g. "Slashed (forward)" and "Slashed (backwards)"

As explained above this is to fit the new and rather long note head names (esp. those 2 I mentioned) in the note head group popup of the note inspector. And only that increased, select a rest or clef, or some other element to see the effect

As Ambitus uses note head group too, it 'suffers' from the same issue

Barline inspector also is quite wide (but no change to 2.0), similar reason: the names for the various barlines are quite long and need to fit their popup menu.
And all this (most probably) also depends on the language setting, quite frequently the translations are longer than the English original.

see https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/2892

As for a more universal approach (including translators bloating the inspector size): perhaps we can have the ComboBox have a minimum size to what's available but truncating the texts if they're too big.
According to https://forum.qt.io/topic/14676/how-can-i-keep-a-qcombobox-from-changin… (final post) that might be possible?

Hmm, yes, seems setting minimumContentsLentgh to e.g. 10 and sizeAdjustPolicy to AdjustToMinimumContentsLenth or AdjustToMinumumContentsLenghtWithIcon does work, it then indeed does cut of the tail end of the texts in the button. It does show them fully in the popup though.
Not sure we want these cut off texts?

Further wondering about the same subject; a similar argument can be made for the normal text labels as well and then we're off into neverending design discussionland..

Those noteheads had just been added recently.
But yes, shortening the names even further might be the way to go here, could even be "Slashed" and "Backslashed".

Fixed in branch master, commit 9ca8fb07d3

fix #147196: Minimum width of Inspector has increased significantly

esp. note and ambitus inspector, due to these long names for note head
groups

Fixed in branch master, commit bb8ed5410c

Merge pull request #2892 from Jojo-Schmitz/inspector-width

fix #147196: Minimum width of Inspector has increased significantly

Did I miss something? But I do not see a change in the width of the inspector with this fix.
Currently with 7d2efcc, and as before, the width of the inspector reaches the icon of the whole note in the toolbar.

Previously (and in 2.0.3), it reached the quarter note.

If you make it as narrow as possible without seeing the hozontal slider at the bottom?
It is still wider in the nightly than in 2.0.3 though, but can go narrower than in the nightlies before the change

By now, at the precise moment where the horizontal slider at the bottom is no more showed, it reaches the half note (or rather it exceeds the icon)

as said, it is still wider than on 2.0, but that too is due to the new noteheads that got added and their longer names. Also depends on translation

Ok, I understand, but, really, this Inspector becomes invasive (and I think about all aspects, one other is discussed just below in this Issue tracker)

I liked the right/good balance between the inspector and the contextual menus (right-click) reached into the 2.0.3 (and the width of course)
I admit that I like less and less, even not at all, the options taken - some, badly thought in my opinion, have already been merged -, and which seem to want to assert themselves (ie "eliminate most properties dialogs....")

My feeling, my experience.

There are plans for a major redesign of the inspector.

Indeed, I have seen that.

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.