Let right-click toggle between adding rests and notes
Reported version
3.0
Priority
P2 - Medium
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Reproducibility
Always
Status
closed
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
Based on a number of discussions over the years where users expressed displeasure over the steps needed to adds rests using the mouse, I came up with a scheme to simplify this: allow right-click to add a rest if you are otherwise in note mode, or to add a note if otherwise in rest mode. I won't claim this is super discoverable, but it does streamline the workflow for mouse users who do learn about it. Eventually we could add a context menu to also allow selecting duration, but I think adding a rest still makes sense as a default action. PR forthcoming.
Comments
https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/4704
I think this is a great idea.
PR merged. Next step is informing people :-)
Wow, very good. Just tested and immediately approved! Why did we have to wait until 3.0 to implement this?! Over the years, I have almost switched to the all-keyboard, but it can and will do a great service. Please suggest other improvements of this kind!
Is the rest mode still necessary then?
It reason it waited so long is that no one thought to implement it sooner :-). But I don't know the rest mode still has value for discoverability. Maybe at least a new "tour" message that appears the first time you press the rest button?
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.