Consider completely disabling the smooth-scrolling animation in the palette

• Nov 4, 2020 - 17:18
Reported version
3.5
Type
Ergonomical (UX)
Frequency
Once
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Reproducibility
Always
Status
active
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project

MuseScore 3.5, Windows 10, 1920x1080 resolution, 1.5x UI scaling.

To reproduce: Open the "Palette" panel. Open a few categories. Scroll the panel using a mouse-wheel or a laptop touchpad. Then, open the "Preferences" dialog and navigate to the "Shortcuts" tab. Scroll the list of shortcuts using the same method.

Expected behaviour: Scrolling should be consistent.

Observed behaviour: Scrolling the list of shortcuts is instantaneous. Scrolling the palette for short distances introduces approximately one second of delay while a smooth-scrolling animation plays. Scrolling the palette long distances (say, from top to bottom with several categories open, using a particularly sensitive laptop touchpad) plays a much longer animation, approximately two to three seconds in length.

I find that this animation makes the palette difficult to use.

I also note that the length of the transient "scrollbar" seems to fluctuate during scrolling, and that scrolling with my laptop touchpad is hypersensitive, making accurate touchpad scrolling impossible. It seems likely that these are all facets of the same problem, along with issue #294613.


Comments

The palette animation always fools me. I open a palette, immediately spot the action I want to click on, go click there - but before my click is handled the palette autoarranges itself and moves, so my click goes to a different tool than I originally clicked on. Is it a feature request for the palette or for myself??? :D D: D