Now with the new and improved jump bar, there is a bit of bloat that complicates my workflow.
Would it be possible to highlight the more important options? Maybe a nice tangerine or lemon colored text font or something similar? this would help navigate.
Another possible fix could be prioritizing those options at the top. In fact, I would prefer both of these as it would make it extremely clear and easy to find.
For instance, I am used to typing “reset position.” I know, I can add a shortcut and I have many, but this one is just ingrained in my process. Now with the new jump bar, I get “reset CLEF position” above “reset position,” requiring an extra key stroke.
What is more important is something that depends on what you want to do I guess?
Maybe not an answer to your question, but I also had to change some ingrained habits because of this change – having said that, you know that you can type abbreviations without having created them yourself? For instance typing ”repos” gives you:
I think for me the important options are less about them being important to my workflow and being a higher menu item that is generally more important than an individual item. Many search functions find ways to better prioritize search results. I actually prefer the less helpful and cleaner jump bar from before because the bloat isn’t there. I do, however, love this idea of changing a setting on the fly, Very speedy. I just think some better organization of search results would help the overall UX
While “important” is indeed a very subjective concept, I do agree that in this example:
..it doesn’t make much sense that a search result that is a 100% match to the search string gets placed second. The same more or less goes for the first screenshot in the OP.
No, the results aren’t simply shown in alphabetical order. The sorting is complicated by the fact that we want to match both “reset position” and “repos”, as Lars describes above. When you type “reset position” both “Reset Position” and “Reset Clef Position” are equally good matches as things stand, but we should obviously prefer “Reset Position” because it’s a closer match overall. I’ll try to tweak this a bit further.
We always show commands before options, on the grounds that we think overall commands are more important and more likely what you’re looking for, so in theory you shouldn’t ever be inconvenienced by the fact that options are returned, because the command you’re looking for will always be first in the list.
Thanks for the clarification Daniel! The commands over options preference might not be what one would expect from the way the new jump bar functionalities are explained in the video though, as I believe it’s the option results and the possibility to change them from the jump bar directly that were being spotlighted. But your explanation certainly helps in understanding the logic behind it.
