I downloaded Shotcut version 25.01.25 and was surprised and disappointed to see the Notes and Markers Icons that were on the Toolbar for years are now gone. I really hope that this was just an oversight.
While I’m well aware that they are still accessible via shortcuts and the View menu, their presence on the Toolbar was invaluable because these two are essential functionalities. Them being on the Toolbar was a visual reminder that offers quick access for frequent users, like myself and discoverability for new users who would need these basic tools.
If the decision was to take out these commonly used tools to make space for a less frequently used feature like Subtitles then that just is counterintuitive. Moreover, including all three icons would not significantly impact the Toolbar space. This is why, again, I hope this was just an oversight.
I kindly request to reinstate the Notes and Markers icons to the Toolbar. This is just better for the overall user experience as it maintains the software’s intuitive design. Thank you.
No, it’s not. It is because at many default screen and window sizes a number of people reported they do not have the workspace buttons on the toolbar. We cannot keep adding to the toolbar without adding ugly and space consuming wrapping or overflow functions. These two are low priority. I never really wanted to make Shotcut a text editor, and markers are most useful on the timeline. On the other hand, text on video is very trendy. And even when you are not embedding Subtitles, the feature is very useful to add a lot of text to video. So, your opinion about priority is wrong.
How about let the user choose what they want to keep there? It’s much better of a solution, basically dan should put whatever he thinks is high priority, and let the user change it later if they want.
I personally think subtitles icon is very low priority, even though it adds a lot of text, I never think it should be a button to enable it, just add a simple subtitle track at the bottom forever, and when you click the track and type something, it automatically creates a text box, or double/triple click the track to enable AI subtitles (idk if shotcut has it, I don’t really use shotcut anymore). But seeing this post, I assume subtitles have some kind of AI to understand voice now, and you can’t customize the ribbon bar or whatever it is called.
Ps:- I don’t think these ideas will ever be implemented because the developers can’t do it because it’s very hard in some way, idk what way. And talking about me, I am just saying what is a better suggestion according to me, not accounting the usability of anyone else. But I believe the ability to customise is fairly liked everywhere.
I’ve mentioned this before, and I had a feeling it’s destined to remain just like that. I’m sure there’s a perfectly good reason it won’t be implemented, one that I may never be enlightened about (Saying “don’t feel like” is kind of confusing to me, not sure if it is for just now or forever) But hey, it’s just a minor quality of life improvement, nothing groundbreaking. Not that it matters much to me anymore, since I’m not really an active user. Just figured I’d throw it out here as a suggestion.
Anyway, hope you have a great day!
I meant that I personally do not want to work on that, but I do not reject the idea. To the would be contributor: I probably will not accept a solution that only adjusts the main toolbar because once you open that door, people want other toolbars configurable including ones that are not currently implemented as true toolbars.
It’s a usefullness vs complexity & bug/crash impact that really doesn’t give a good score for this one. The usefullness is pretty low because all of those items are quickly present in the View menu and also have shortcuts, but the amount of work required to make that area of the UI dynamic and treat all possible updates is really high.
In my case… Now I almost never click on those because I already have all the panels that I ever use opened in my custom layout and I never close them because they can just be stacked/hidden on top of each other.
Oh, I just realised I can hide the toolbar completely to get the video area bigger!
Really depends on person to person, to me, I would love the option to customise even though I probably wouldn’t, but it gives me a satisfactory feeling that it’s there. To some it’s useless, to some, they use it everytime.
To defend me from getting hated, Customisation is great thing to have, and I did already mention that I don’t think this will be coming any soon because it’s probably hard or something. I feel like suggesting because it’s a suggestion topic, doesn’t matter if it gets implemented or not.
Understand it, people would then want to customise each single place, indeed it’s better to wait until someone/some people work on it separately to make everything customisable.
