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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Arrwww, I hate those "burger" concept menus for the menuline, they
just make it hard to navigate. But anyway, I think such UI discussions
are better of after the release. FWIW.

2015-07-06 20:20 GMT+02:00 Joel Holdsworth <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> In PulseView I found this problem - redundancy between the toolbar and menu
> bar. So I combined the two to save space into a toolbar with a burger menu
> on the right:
>
> https://airwebreathe.org.uk/lib/exe/fetch.php?cache=&media=pulseview:posterity:20150101-burger-menu.png
>
> I've also removed the status bar. The goal of all this is to eliminate as
> many bars as possible which makes the UI keep the canvas space as large as
> possible for actual work.
>
> Joel
>
>
>
> On 06/07/15 12:03, Nick Østergaard wrote:
>
> This is solely my personal opinion: I don't think another "auxillary
> feature"-button (read less important for the layout) in the main toolbar is
> of much use. It is easier to access with the hotkeys, but so are almost
> everything else... We should revise what the goal of the toolbars is. Do we
> really need every action in the toolbars? To me it is a lot of clutter. I
> would like for someone else to comment on this.   I am sort of not for
> neither against merging this, I would just like to point this out.
>
> Den 06/07/2015 18.31 skrev "easyw" <easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> attached there is a minimal patch to add
>> "Show board in 3D viewer" button in pcbnew mainToolBar
>> ... a useful button :)
>>
>> Maurice
>>
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