SUMMARY It would be handy to have timecode display in Monitors a little more "findable" at a glance, while editing. For this to happen I think of mainly two cosmetic changes: 1. Use a bigger font type with a stronger body (a bolder one). 2. Find a way to highlight the currently used timecode (that is, the clip or timeline one, depending on which panel is the current one). Perhaps by using a tinted background? I find this proposal more needed when editing in the timeline, because the eyes are posed over that lower part of the screen (the timeline), while the timecode counter is changing "silently" elsewhere (in the timeline monitor); so I think that having a somewhat more prominent "landmark" to quickly take your eyes to, would result in an improvement of the awareness of it. As a bonus, this proposal would also help in distinguishing the real "live" timecode, from that other timecodes present at the timeline toolbar, that my eyes were continually headed to when I started using the program, but where not was I was really looking for (the timecode in the monitor was it). Thanks for listening!
Nice idea! As a first step, I just made the active monitor's timecode text green and bold when the monitor is active, see attached screenshot
Created attachment 178512 [details] Bold and green font in active monitor timecode
Git commit 84240a980e2bb4e05d32e282c87aa4197522bcd6 by Jean-Baptiste Mardelle. Committed on 18/02/2025 at 11:02. Pushed by mardelle into branch 'master'. Make monitor timecode color different if monitor is active M +12 -1 src/monitor/monitor.cpp M +2 -0 src/monitor/monitor.h M +2 -0 src/monitor/monitormanager.cpp M +5 -0 src/monitor/monitorproxy.cpp M +3 -0 src/monitor/monitorproxy.h M +1 -1 src/monitor/view/kdenliveclipmonitor.qml M +1 -1 src/monitor/view/kdenlivemonitor.qml https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kdenlive/-/commit/84240a980e2bb4e05d32e282c87aa4197522bcd6
Nice, thanks! :)
And by the way, Kdenlive uses the system's default fixed font (monospace) for timecodes. So on KDE Desktop, you can change the font family and size in the System Setting's Font page. Not sure if there is such setting on Gnome and if it works though
I'm really on Windows, but thanks!
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