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add to library/expand clip in context menu in Project Bin

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lmichaels
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Hi devs

Thank you for this fantastic piece of software!

Now that I have learned how to use the amazing "Library" in Kdenlive, I would like to make 2 small, similar suggestions:

1) The context menu in the project bin (i.e., when you right click on a clip) could have two additional options: "Add Clip to Library" and "Expand Clip".

2) Also add to the context menu in the timeline the option "Add Clip to Library".

Rationale for these two suggestions:

I find the library amazingly useful, but am always slightly surprised at the two "paths" to get to these two fundamental commands:

- to add a clip you are working with to the library, you first need to go to the library to say "add the clip I was working with just now to the library". This is slightly more "roundabout" than expected, since ideally one would be able to say, while working with a clip, "let me right click on this and add it directly to the Library since I will most likely want to reuse it in a different project"

- to be able to modify a clip you just imported into your project from the library and is already in your Project Bin, you need to go to the menu bar and select "Timeline => Current Clip => Expand Clip". Often I want to expand a clip right after having added it to the project and even before having it in the timeline, since I already know the clip will require tweaking. So I find this "path" (through the Timeline menu) is slightly less than 100% intuitive.

Just my 2 cents, in any case this feature I just learned about absolutely rocks!

Suppose I have a title clip in the Library. I add it to the Project Bin of the current project. Now I need to do some slight tweak to the version I will use in this project, so I expand the clip.

I would like to suggest that
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bartoloni
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you can try to suggest this change here: https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kdenlive/-/issues maybe placing some screenshots (png format)


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