@brian
I tested the Notes panel a bit. Here’s some feedback:
- I think the font is slightly too small.
- The Tab key is not working.
- If you type something then close the Notes panel and open it again or even minimize the Shotcut window and bring it back it erases what you wrote. That’s the opposite of how in the Comments box for clips you can type something click away, come back to it and it will still be there.
- If you hover the mouse to the upper corner right or lower corner left then a little bar shows up.
This is separate from the bar that actually appears that controls the scrolling of the Notes screen. These little bars don’t do anything so I don’t know why they’re there.
- Can’t copy and paste with the shortcut keys Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V just the time from the counter under the player (i.e. 00:00:00:00). It will instead paste a bunch of other stuff along with it. This might be related to the regression caused here in the timer controls.
- Instead of having a left and right scroll, can the wrapping of the text be based on whatever size the user makes Notes box? That’s how Notepad on Windows deals with text wrapping.
- There should be more of a color contrast of the space where the notes are written with the outside of the panel itself. Compare that with the Comments space in Properties or @MusicalBox’s mockup above to see what I mean where the space to type in is in a color that contrasts the space outside of it.
- I suggest the default position for Notes in all layouts be floating. But in Logging I think it should be in the same space as Recent because it makes sense that if a person is going to use the Logging layout to organize a lot of clips for a project that they should have the Notes panel easily available to start putting down any annotations they want. The space with Recent is a very comfortable place to set it in. In fact, it should also be tab before Recent so that users know it’s there.