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[yann jautard <bricofoy@xxxxxxx>]

Maybe the way used in openoffice or other programs that allow user to 
add and remove every buttons he wants from the toolbars is a solution ? 
But I'm not sure the work needed to allow this would be really usefull...

Le 06/07/2015 22:20, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit :
> I agree that we tend to have more toolbar buttons than necessary which
> take up too much screen space.
>
> You can try taking advantage of the wxAUI_TB_OVERFLOW flag in the
> toolbars.  It doesn't work well when choice boxes are embedded in the
> toolbar but for simple bitmap buttons it works fine.  It's not quite the
> same as the burger menu but it serves a similar purpose.  In any event,
> this will not be something that happens until after the stable release.
>
> On 7/6/2015 2:20 PM, Joel Holdsworth wrote:
> > 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
> > > <mailto: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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