So there are 2 known to me ways of timeline selection: 1) Clicking on the leftmost field with timeline name (V1, V2, A1 etc). 2) Click with right mouse button on the timeline. * 3) Might be hotkeys, which are not active used by me except Ctrl+R to "Slice" clips. The problem with first is that is counter intuitive and forces me to make extra mouse movement to the leftmost part of screen. The problem with second is that invokes menu by right click, which is totally normal. So my proposal is to allow selection of timeline by double left mouse click on the timeline itself. Also to prevent moving playhead to the clicked place in case if there was a double click, not a single click. Preventing playhead from moving when it's not neccesary is another issue itself. This is just loud thinking and suggestion. Without handy and quick selection of timeline the time to work on project increases dramaticaly and even much more in larger projects (I would call large 5-10m videos, because this can be really time consuming and complicated to fight with UX as of current state).
(In reply to Balr Gend from comment #0) > So there are 2 known to me ways of timeline selection: > 1) Clicking on the leftmost field with timeline name (V1, V2, A1 etc). > 2) Click with right mouse button on the timeline. > * 3) Might be hotkeys, which are not active used by me except Ctrl+R to > "Slice" clips. > > The problem with first is that is counter intuitive and forces me to make > extra mouse movement to the leftmost part of screen. The problem with second > is that invokes menu by right click, which is totally normal. > > So my proposal is to allow selection of timeline by double left mouse click > on the timeline itself. Also to prevent moving playhead to the clicked place > in case if there was a double click, not a single click. Preventing > playhead from moving when it's not neccesary is another issue itself. > > This is just loud thinking and suggestion. Without handy and quick selection > of timeline the time to work on project increases dramaticaly and even much > more in larger projects (I would call large 5-10m videos, because this can > be really time consuming and complicated to fight with UX as of current > state). Do you know that you can use the number keys on the keyboard to select the respective video track? Unfortunately, this doesn't work for video tracks > 9, though. Another way is to use the up and down arrow keys to move up and down in the timeline, i.e. selecting the next track up or down.
I didn't know about those hotkeys, thank you! However, there are cases, where those won't fit that good. Let me explain on specific workflow example: I have coppied some clip with selection (mouse) and CTRL+C (keyboard). Now we have something inside clipboard and we want to paste it on different track with CTRL+V. [Keyboard way] 1) Choose track with keyboard hotkeys (if it fits in 1-9 range) or with arrows. 2) Select specific place by moving horizontal arrows 3) CTRL+V [Mouse way] 1) Select specific place (move playhead) by clicking left mouse button 2) Choose track with mouse by right mouse button (the menu will pop up anyways and the clicked track will be selected) 3) Use menu (paste) Usualy I am combining both ways and taking best from each one. So I would like to do something like this: [Combined way] 1) Choose placement of playhead with left mouse button. 2) Choose track by mouse click (quick double left mouse click? / just left mouse click on track selects it by default and moves the playhead at the same time? ) 3) CTRL + V pastes the clip based on where the playhead and which track have been choosen. So there is rarely pure mouse or keyboard workflow, people usualy combine both. Also my current project have 17 video timelines (3 of it is empty for adding things later), so keyboard way won't fit here and will be too hard to navigate those 17 from bottom to top. Considering the question HOW to chose specific track, I don't know how to do it exactly. My guess is that just left mouse click could be even better than double left mouse click (because 1 action VS 2 actions) if there aren't any conflicts which preventing it from happening. Also there are problem with playhead positioning when pasting clips. Usualy I want to paste new clip immideatly after the end of the previous clip on specific track. So it would be good to have playhead snapping to START and END of clips when moving playhead with left mouse button (just an idea).
Git commit 7d6bcedcb9fe918e56333ec6e4933328fcf66eb6 by Jean-Baptiste Mardelle. Committed on 16/05/2024 at 11:18. Pushed by mardelle into branch 'release/24.05'. Double click to select a track in timeline M +7 -3 src/timeline2/view/qml/timeline.qml https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kdenlive/-/commit/7d6bcedcb9fe918e56333ec6e4933328fcf66eb6
I've tested the feature. Double click moves the playhead as well, which is undesired side effect when double clicking. However if we would set it to 1-click of left mouse button it will be fine that playhead are moved as well. So my proposal is to make it 1-click "track selection + playhead moving" action. It will make the edit much more handy. Anyway it feels much better now with double click than without LMB click selection at all.