Yes, this is a design pattern you see in many other software, here is a few examples:
Firefox / Chrome:
So, I have 2 tabs open in firefox: "Google" and "Ubuntu start page", if I use the mouse middle click in one of them, the clicked tab will close. Same goes for chrome / chromium & many other browsers.
Editor / IDE
Same as the example above, if I click any tab with middle click, the clicked tab will close. Here I am using geany, but works with notepad++ & other editors as well.
Other software
You can see this feature in many other software with tabs, like file managers, terminal emulators, etc...
You mean a middle click *not* on the "x" has the effect of actually closing a tab outright in those programs - no popup menu, confirmation dialog, or anything? Sounds like a bug more than a feature to me! Good thing I don't have a three button mouse any more, I guess, since I see this actually *is* a semi-standard feature now, yet this would do nothing but annoy me.
Anyhow, active means active, but minor feature requests are not really a priority right now. Much more important to be fixing bugs to get a stable release out!
Try this in IE, Firefox, Thunderbird. If there's not been a change to the code/form/whatever, and you click the X on the tab, it closes without any intervention. Clicking the third button takes a conscious effort because the fingers are not normally situated on it unless you're scrolling.
It's not a feature I use, but it certainly is in use.
Since this feature is present in all the major web browsers, it appears to be a de facto user interface convention that people will expect from all tabbed document interfaces, including Muse Score.
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Is this a design pattern you see in other software as well? If so, please give a few examples.
Yes, this is a design pattern you see in many other software, here is a few examples:
Firefox / Chrome:
So, I have 2 tabs open in firefox: "Google" and "Ubuntu start page", if I use the mouse middle click in one of them, the clicked tab will close. Same goes for chrome / chromium & many other browsers.
Editor / IDE
Same as the example above, if I click any tab with middle click, the clicked tab will close. Here I am using geany, but works with notepad++ & other editors as well.
Other software
You can see this feature in many other software with tabs, like file managers, terminal emulators, etc...
I know its marked as active, but is the thread dead? :v
You mean a middle click *not* on the "x" has the effect of actually closing a tab outright in those programs - no popup menu, confirmation dialog, or anything? Sounds like a bug more than a feature to me! Good thing I don't have a three button mouse any more, I guess, since I see this actually *is* a semi-standard feature now, yet this would do nothing but annoy me.
Anyhow, active means active, but minor feature requests are not really a priority right now. Much more important to be fixing bugs to get a stable release out!
Try this in IE, Firefox, Thunderbird. If there's not been a change to the code/form/whatever, and you click the X on the tab, it closes without any intervention. Clicking the third button takes a conscious effort because the fingers are not normally situated on it unless you're scrolling.
It's not a feature I use, but it certainly is in use.
Since this feature is present in all the major web browsers, it appears to be a de facto user interface convention that people will expect from all tabbed document interfaces, including Muse Score.
Unfortunately, this is not explicitly stated yet in either Microsoft's (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn742466(v=vs…) or Apple's (https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/UserExperience/Co…) design guidelines.
Perhaps this could be taken care of together with #59986: [Mac] Ctrl+Tab to switch between scores does not work?
See https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/5871.
Fixed in branch master, commit 764db856ed
_Merge pull request #5871 from Howard-C/tab-middle-button
Add the ability to close score tab by clicking middle button (fix #27371)_
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.