Alphabetical ordering of lists

• Jun 5, 2018 - 13:01

There are some windows in MuseScore that has an alphabetical ordering, but most of them do not have it and there is no possibility to customize these lists. For me it is very confusing and time-expensive to search for an item in a non-alphabetical-ordered-list. Every time my eyes need to flow over all list items to find the right one, because I do not remember all the positions of all these items in different lists.

I was told already, that there is some predefined logically ordering where most important things are on top and others somewhere else. I think something important or not is a matter of personal judgment. The developers think that this is the right order, others like me don't think so.

So It would be great when there is an alphabetically ordering available in all these lists.
Here are now some descriptions about the different windows in MuseScore:

Settings-ShortCuts.png
The list is alphabetically sorted

Score-Properties.png
The list is alphabetically sorted, except when I add new entries like you see in screenshot as BBB. I found neither a way to delete that BBB item nor to reorder the list items, so there is no customization available.

Instruments.png
The list is not alphabetically sorted, neither the main list nor the sub items. And I cannot see something why one instrument should be preferred against another to have a magic internal logically order. For me a violin is the most important instrument. For one who plays saxophone this one is the most important.

MasterPalette.png
The list is not alphabetically sorted. Of course I do not know why this window exists. It seems to me like a read-only window, where I can nothing resort or change. But maybe this is only because of my less knowledge about that window. To resort a palette I need to create also a custom one, the predefined are not changeable. The manual reordering is a mess... multiple righthclick-contextmenu-movedown to move one item to the right alphabetic position. This is a job for the computer, not for the user.

SelectionFilter.png
The list is not alphabetically sorted. The items cannot be reordered, so there is no customization available. Ok I understand that possibly selection filtering by voices is the most important and on top. But I think it could give persons who like something other things at top

StyleGeneral.png
The list on left is not alphabetically sorted. The items cannot be reordered, so there is no customization available.

StyleText.png
The list on left is not alphabetically sorted. If you add new items to define own text styles they are added at bottom in the order of their adding. There is no possibility to reorder something, customization not available.

PluginManager.png
The list is alphabetically sorted.

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Instruments.png 223.42 KB
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SelectionFilter.png 95.13 KB
StyleGeneral.png 281.98 KB
StyleText.png 281.4 KB
PluginManager.png 145.56 KB

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