[MU4 Issue] "Go to bottom staff" action missing from keyboard shortcuts

[avvvvve]

As a MuseScore user, I want to be able to assign a keyboard shortcut to go to the bottom staff, just as I can assign one to go to the top staff.

Requirements

• Add an action to Preferences > Shortcuts for "Go to bottom staff" with no default key command.
• When run, this action selects the first note/rest in the same measure as the current selection in the last staff of the current system. (If there is only one staff, nothing happens)

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Old issue description

Issue type

Other type of issue

Bug description

The handbook defines "Go to top staff" and "Go to bottom staff" as actions with keyboard shortcuts in the Score navigation section, but in MS4:

• "Go to top staff" is listed as an action in Keyboard shortcuts but has no definition set
• "Go to bottom staff" does not exist as an action

Either the handbook needs to be updated to remove these, or the actions should be fixed in Preferences.

Go to top staff shortcuts:
Windows/Linux: Alt+Shift+Up
Mac: Option+Shift+Up

Go to bottom staff shortcuts:
Windows/Linux: Alt+Shift+Down
Mac: Option+Shift+Down

Steps to reproduce

1. Open Preferences
2. Go to Shortcuts
3. Search for "Go to top staff", see that there is no shortcut set
4. Search for "Go to bottom staff", see that it does not exist

Screenshots/Screen recordings

No response

MuseScore Version

MuseScore version (64-bit): 4.1.1-232071203, revision: github-musescore-musescore-e4d1ddf

Regression

I don't know

Operating system

OS: macOS 13.4, Arch.: x86_64

Additional context

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[avvvvve]

@bkunda when you have time to take a look:

There is a mismatch between what the handbook says (which describes shortcuts that don't exist/are not set by default) and what the app has. I wasn't sure if there was a reason as to why those defaults are not set.

My recommendation here is to add the default shortcut for "Go to top staff" and create the action and default shortcut for "Go to bottom staff".

[bkunda]

That sounds reasonable to me @avvvvve.
Can you please update the issue description accordingly?
Thanks!

[Jojo-Schmitz]

Seems to apply to Mu3 too, except there this isn't in the handbook

and entering Alt+Shift+Up/Down doesn't seem possible, the Shift gets ignored (in Mu3 and Mu4), and as such conflicts with other existing shortcuts.

[MarcSabatella]

FWIW, I don't recall why/how it ended up getting listed in the Handbook. It's been in my spreadsheet since the initial commit. But, during the beta there was a bug where the command had an empty shortcut assigned that was causing problems - see #11522. I remember a push to get as many of the missing commands added as possible, and there were a few different PR's. Maybe at one point there was a default shortcut then it got removed?

Anyhow, I have no opinion on whether there there should be a default, and if we decide not, I'll amend the spreadsheet and regenerate the table for the Handbook.

[avvvvve]

Super weird that the shift is ignored when trying to define that combination—I'll create a separate issue to allow setting key commands involving shift and arrow keys.

I amended this issue to simply add the missing "Go to bottom staff" action to the shortcuts list. I think we can leave the defaults for both unset for now.

@MarcSabatella I went ahead and removed "Go to top staff"/"Go to bottom" from the handbook. Feel free to update your spreadsheet accordingly :)

[avvvvve]

Added the shift + arrow key problem to existing issue #14697