Menu entry and dialog box title bar out of sync with each other

• Dec 17, 2018 - 17:41
Reported version
3.0
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S4 - Minor
Reproducibility
Always
Status
closed
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
MuseScore

The following menu entries have dialog boxes where the title bar is different
Menu entry title bar
Format -> Style… vs Edit General Style

Suggestion: change dialog title bar to Style

Plugin Creator... vs MuseScore Plugin Creator

Suggestion: change dialog title bar to Plugin Creator

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• Dec 17, 2018 - 20:18

What is its counterpart, what should it be? Right-click "Staff properties..."? This is not just out of sync, but utterly wrong, it isn't Staff properties but Part Properties and was ever since. So if changing anything that this to "Staff/part properties..."

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• Dec 18, 2018 - 03:53

Thanks Isaac. As a first pass, I only did the (File/Edit/View) menus and was thinking of doing context menus at a second round. Context menus are a lot more difficult to find since the menu changes all the time depending on where you click (unless any of you know of a way to identify context menus and their contents. Identifying a dialog box that comes from a menu entry is usually easy since it is trailed by "...".

Jojo - since we have identified this one, we may well take care of it. Current values:
menu: Staff Properties
heading: Edit Staff/Part Properties

In a dialog box where you edit stuff, "Edit" is redundant. This dialog covers Staff and Part and indeed has subheadings / sections for Staff Properties and Part Properties

My very strong preference is to change both menu and heading to
Staff/Part Properties

ps: this would definitely be a big improvement in making the menu option more intuitive. About 99.9% of the time, when I choose this option to modify things relating to the Part, not the Staff, and the menu entry was confusing for a while until I remembered to choose Staff Properties for modifications to the part.

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