Suggestion: Keep verbs with verbs

[scorster]

I find it odd that MuseScore 4's Add Linked Staff "verb" is buried with various Staff Property "adjectives."

Why not relocate the Add Linked Staff "verb" to a position directly along side the Add Staff verb? As shown here:

     

But MuseScore would need to toggle Add Linked staff between enabled and disabled:

• MuseScore 4 would enable Add Linked Staff only when the user has a single staff selected.
• Accordingly, when the user has an entire Instrument selected MuseScore would disable the Add Linked Staff button.

This matches MS 3.6's behavior, so the recommend change not a stretch logically or programatically.

Here's a specific example regarding the posted image above:

• if the user has the Acoustic Guitar Instrument selected MuseScore disables the Add Linked Staff button.

• when the user selects the Treble Clef 8va staff bass staff (a child of Acoustic Guitar) the Add Linked Staff button is enabled.

[ShibuyaCyana]

Agree, too many clicks needed to add a linked tablature staff for a guitar in MS4, while in MS3 I could do this when creating a score...

In MS3 new score wizard:
select staff - add linked staff - click dropdown - select tablature, done;
In MS4:
expand instrument - click staff gear icon - add linked staff - click new staff gear icon - click dropdown - select tablature

Looks like only 2 clicks away, but I can't help to highlight the staff before clicking on the gear icon, fearing of changing properties for other staffs, which adds another 2 or 3 clicks (including instrument); and then another click to un-expand the instrument to make it looks, um, untouched? I don't know if this only happens to me...

Other possible improvements:

1. make guitar (staff + tab) as an instrument, since we already have two separate "instruments" for guitar and guitar (tablature);
2. Automatically create linked staff as tablature, if instrument applies. Maybe even let user choose which type by default, possibly from the "advanced style properties" dialog.
   

[scorster]

Ultimately, it will be music welcomed when MuseScore has a one-stop shopping Properties>Guitar panel that houses all relevant Staff settings, Staff>Advanced Style Properties, tuning data ...

And a New Guitar Score wizard that initially walks one through all the settings for a guitar instrument, including the option of linked staves.