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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Quick followup, I think I more or less answered my own question and would like
to suggest my way.

I think everything should be accessible from the menus. This is pretty
standard, all the programs I could find that managed to be both complex and
usable (word processors for instance) had every function available in the
menus. So, I'd like to take all the toolbar buttons that do _not_ have menu
items and add them, possibly rearranging the menus a bit to make this work
better.

I'd also like to reorganize the toolbars a bit to make them a bit easier to
work with; I'll sketch this out on Balsamiq though rather than talking about
it.

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 08:13:24PM -0400, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> We have a lot of redundant options. For example, the grid can be switched
> between Cartesian and polar both on the toolbar and in Preferences->General.
> How do we want to handle this? I'm not sure whether I think these should be
> simplified to only one location, or _consistenly_ made redundant between
> toolbar and menu. If the latter, I still don't think they should be considered
> full preferences, but rather be located perhaps under View or similar. ISTR
> Wayne commented on this a while ago, but I can't find it. Thoughts?
> 
> -- 
> Chris