SUMMARY It might be confusing to some users (especially new ones) when after clicking "Insert clip zone to timeline" nothing happens - because they didn't specify an active timeline. It would be very user-friendly to display a popup that says "Cannot insert the clip, because none of the timelines are activated. Click on the timeline name to activate it" STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Try to insert a clip zone to timeline when no timeline is activated OBSERVED RESULT Nothing happens and it looks like a bug to untrained eye EXPECTED RESULT A popup shows up explaining why the clip wasn't inserted.
Relates to: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412223#add_comment which demonstrates how confusing the current behavior can be for some users
Git commit 9aed5d6dd12f74e02b337cd9d85bde21e6163646 by Jean-Baptiste Mardelle. Committed on 01/11/2019 at 06:19. Pushed by mardelle into branch 'master'. Add some feedback if an insert operation fails. M +2 -3 src/kdenlivesettings.kcfg M +1 -0 src/mainwindow.cpp M +1 -0 src/timeline2/model/timelinefunctions.cpp M +8 -0 src/timeline2/view/timelinecontroller.cpp https://invent.kde.org/kde/kdenlive/commit/9aed5d6dd12f74e02b337cd9d85bde21e6163646
Please try with the upcoming Kdenlive version 19.12. We close this bug. If it still appears in the 19.12 version, please feel free to re-open it and update the affected version number.