Start Center - my idea

• Dec 18, 2014 - 05:28

So - I'm watching evolution of the "Start Center" and... Maybe will be better when the "Start Center" will be integrated with "Score Wizard"?
We open MuseScore and we see "Recent", "Community", and "Open an existing score"...
Why "Create New Score" icon is in "Recent" tab? We'll be create new score...

My idea - one window only with three icons and without tabs:
- Create new score ("Create new score" icon)
- Open an existing score ("Load score from file" icon)
- Open score from MuseScore.com ("MuseScore Connect" icon)

And - when we click, for example: "Create new score", we will be moving to the next step - no next window (as in "Score Wizard"). In "Open an existing..." we'll see window as in "Load file"; in "Open score from..." we'll see window with MuseScore.com; but all windows we'll be contain button "Return to the Start Center".

Greetings,
Gootector


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The Start Center is in evolution, it's true. I have no idea ideal.

My intention is not to argue, but, in the last evolution, I was the least surprised, almost shocked by the appearance of a cross (I would almost the sign of the cross) in the Start Center.
Perhaps the intention was to put a plus sign in bold and with a large font size. Yet for me, I saw instantly a cross (and I continue to see this...) , sorry to repeat it.
Sign.jpg
If you want to put a symbol, I think it would be better to implement an evident musical symbol as a figure of notes, an eighth note, for example, or other

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In reply to by cadiz1

C'mon... this clearly is a plus, a (Christian) cross doesn't have the horizontal bar centered, but further up, it taht is what you mean.
What about those lying cross on the upper left corner of every window (used to close it)?
What about using the 'cross' key (and the corresponding icon) to generate a tie?
What about the plus sign in the palettes to add a new workspace

In reply to by Jojo-Schmitz

"a (Christian) cross doesn't have the horizontal bar centered, but further up, it taht is what you mean."
See the first image of the top right and read this page. It's more precisely a Greek cross, but we remain in the same thought: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross

"What about those lying cross on the upper left corner of every window (used to close it)?
What about using the 'cross' key (and the corresponding icon) to generate a tie?
What about the plus sign in the palettes to add a new workspace"

Do not compare what is not comparable: that is the size and character that makes all the difference.
See the image on Wiki, and compare e.g. with the cross (plus) key to generate a tie: I don't see the same thing!

In reply to by cadiz1

FWIW, I don't know anything about Greek crosses, but now that you mention it, I see it resembling the flag of Switzerland. Not enough to bother me, though. A plug sign still seems to be the obvious choice; it's not our fault if a big plus sign within a rectangle might also be used in other contexts.

In reply to by xavierjazz

Me too!
Thanks Jm6stringer.
The presence of staves removes any ambiguity, it is the most important. We are in the music world, nothing else.
Then, the idea of the pen in the era of the tablet may be considered somewhat anachronistic, but can also be seen as a singular shortcut of the music history, from Bach (or other) to MuseScore... So, to see :)

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