An intruder in the menu bar (Edit>AutoFill, Mac only)

[alexnoclain]

Issue type

UI bug (incorrect info or interface appearance)

Bug description

The edit menu has items that should not be there.
See screenshot.
This happens by selecting the default system language and French.
I tried other languages and there were no these items in the menu. (I haven't tried all languages)

Steps to reproduce

1. Open Musescore
2. Click on edit menu
   3....

Screenshots/Screen recordings

MuseScore Version

4.2

Regression

Yes, this used to work in a previous version of MuseScore 4.x

Operating system

MacOS 14

Additional context

No response

[JLWALTENER]

Strange, does not happen on my Windows version of 4.2, see screenshot 👍

[cbjeukendrup]

This seems caused by a new macOS 14 feature; in English, this is probably called AutoFill.
Probably this only occurs when your macOS language matches your MuseScore language, because macOS uses the names of the menus to detect which one is the edit menu.
In a65eea3, we removed some other items that are automatically added by macOS. However, it would be more ideal to not remove these items but support them properly instead, and make sure that they appear in a sensible place in the menu.
Technically this seems somewhat related to #12682.

[cbjeukendrup]

I wasted a significant part of my day researching this problem, but without luck. I could not find a way to get rid of this unwanted menu, so I tried if we can make it less annoying by having it at the bottom of the list of menu items instead of at the top, but I can't get that to happen either.
So maybe a more drastic solution is needed, like directly using macOS APIs for implementing the menu bar, bypassing Qt. That won't be particularly pleasant to do though, and maybe not worth the effort and risk.
Hopefully Apple will add a way to disable this AutoFill menu item; or if a hidden way already exists, hopefully someone will find it and document it.

[DmitryArefiev]

so I tried if we can make it less annoying by having it at the bottom of the list of menu items instead of at the top

This was improved in #21936/#21935

[bkunda]

Looks like we cannot fix this at the moment without bypassing Qt.
We'll leave this open at the back of the backlog, in case we uncover a way to disable it.
Meanwhile, the solution to put it at the bottom of the Edit menu is a good one. I've personally not even noticed it until now 😅