My wish-ist would include creating my own cover images, color coding, and the addition of tags/categories. The oversized hub tiles eat a lot of rel estate, and have already pushed off the bottom of my screen, with 40 more files to bring in.
I think Dorico saves a thumbnail of the last open layout you were watching when you closed the file. This is, what is used for the tile-view of the hub. That thumbnail picture is part of the .dorico project file - it is stored in the zipped project”folder” (.dorico is actually a .zip file renamed with a different ending)
If you don’t like how much space the thumbnails and their titles take, you could consider switching to list view (that’s what I have done).
List view is rather underwhelming, too. My general view is the hub was kind of thrown together with no plan for navigational functionality, though that would be hard as the hub has to interact with the OS’ own data tree - Mac, Win, and Lin. As for the tiles, perhaps some option in setup or project info where you can add an image, or snapshot a selected page?
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the best way would be to formulate a feature-request (give it that flag when posting), then it will end up on a list of good suggestions and might be taken into account at some point.
My impression is, that you will be much more successful with a request (than with a “rant” about missing functionality).
A good suggestion is always very welcome, you might even get a direct response from the developers of Dorico.
I’ve gotten many helpful bits from the principals - direct responses. I see posts elsewhere that they are aware of the hub’s deficiencies so I won’t bother them with more. I didn’t say anything that hasn’t been said elsewhere.
The answer to my question: the hub snapshots the first save -as, which remains burned in. In a couple instances, I saved-as a template file before adding any music to it, so it snapshotted an empty file…
This is probably a bad advice: one could open the .dorico project archive (by renaming it to .zip first) and delete the thumbnail preview.pdf - or actually replace it with your tailored .pdf. Zip the folder, rename to .dorico again - and see what happens…
Just a (probably bad) idea. Try on a copy only at own risk…
The thumbnail in the project is updated when you explicitly save (but not when Dorico auto-saves), provided the active layout is shown in page view at that time. It’s certainly not “burned in” once and for all on the initial save.
By page view you mean “not in galley view”? Or in “Print?” Either way, for me this wasn’t working with “File > Save”, Cmd-S, or selecting Save on quit. Only on Save-as with a new name. It could be my system, perhaps I need a restart. Or alternatively, perhaps I should open an IPA.
My Finale crossovers are going well, and I feel quite comfortable in Dorico.
Correct, I mean you must be looking at a layout in page view. You should also check that you haven’t deactivated the option to save thumbnails inside the project at the bottom of the Project page in File > Project Info.