Bug 426984

Summary:	Feature Requests - Buttons, Layouts, Text
Product:	[Applications] kdenlive	Reporter:	the_guy_with_hair
Component:	User Interface & Miscellaneous	Assignee:	Jean-Baptiste Mardelle <jb>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	fritzibaby, julius.kuenzel
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	triaged
Version First Reported In:	20.08.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Other
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description the_guy_with_hair 2020-09-26 05:18:12 UTC

Kdenlive is pretty great. Good work to all of you.

That said, I do have a few complaints.

1. Why aren't "Go To Project Start" |<< and "Go To Project End" >>| default buttons on the clip monitor? They are pretty damn useful. Same goes for "Go To Clip Start/End". I thought these would be a standard on every video editor.
2. Okay. I just clicked one of the 5 layouts in the top-right corner... Now how do I switch back to the original layout? I honestly have no idea... Proposal: Add "Default" to the list OR make it so when you click the layout a second time, it reverts back to default. i.e. click "Logging" once (Logging is now highlighted), click "Logging" again (Logging is now unhighlighted).
3. Add an option to turn off anti-aliasing on Text.

Thanks for reading.

Comment 1 Julius Künzel 2021-03-25 22:41:45 UTC

Thanks for your report!

1. a valid feature request, nothing to add
2. on a fresh install (or if you delete [instruction for linux] ~./config/kdenliverc, ~/.config/kdenlive-layoutsrc and ~/.config/kdenlive-appimagerc) "editing" is the default. If you just updated there are might some leftovers of an old installation.
3. can you explain this point a bit more (maybe with a screenshot)? I don't really understand what you want… (e.g. which text? the UI text, title clip text,…)

Comment 2 the_guy_with_hair 2021-03-29 06:02:46 UTC

Hi Julius.

Thanks for getting back to me.

Just opened kdenlive and clicked Editing, and now I have two preview monitors and an audio mixer.
Is this the expected layout for a clean install?
I thought the default layout looked like this: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqifJqeiXu0&t=252s

Yeah. I meant on title clip text.
I mainly wanted this feature for a project I was working on with low resolution gameplay videos, but ended up creating the title cards in PowerPoint.

Comment 3 Julius Künzel 2021-03-29 12:14:40 UTC

The default layout changed with 20.08 when we introduced several layouts for different purposes like Color, Audio,… (see https://kdenlive.org/en/2020/08/kdenlive-20-08-is-out/) and the new default is "Editing". However you can rearrange the layout and save custom ones in the "View" menu. The first five layouts in View > Manage Layouts are shown in the top right of the application window. With 21.04 (coming in April 2021) you can even import/export layouts to use with another installation.