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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/14/2017 9:35 AM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> This looks bad:
> 
> https://misc.c4757p.com/ugly.png
> 
> Really bad. Three of the same icon, with low enough contrast that I can
> barely tell what it's a picture of... and seriously, prepending "** " to
> mark the selected item? Really? Even text-mode applications that are
> stuck doing things like that usually think to space over the deselected
> ones too so everything still lines up...
> 
> If I prepared a patch to ditch the icon and display option buttons next
> to those instead, would it be argued against?
> 

No argument from me.  A check menu item to indicate which canvas is
active would definitely be helpful to the user.  Please remember to use
a wxUpdateUIEvent to maintain the check state.