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[Michael Kavanagh <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19 February 2018 at 12:26, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I’m glad we got the new menu structure in, because some of the issue will only be uncovered with a bit of use.
>
> I’ve found the first one, but I’ve got a meta-question first:
>
> Michael, do you want to do the modifications for any issues that we find?  Or do you have limited bandwidth?

I'd be happy to do them, but I am currently in my final year of
university and writing my thesis.. so that has to take priority. I
just wanted to help fix up the UI/UX a bit before the v5 release,
mainly focusing on the menu bars and maybe reorganising the top
horizontal toolbars if there was time.

> On to the issue:
>
> The canvas options got put under a Display Settings  sub-menu.  We were trying to re-inforce the notion that they’re different toolsets, not just display settings, so they need to go back up to the top-level Preferences menu.

I can fix this after the Footprint Editor tweaks are agreed.

> In that vein "Legacy Graphics" should be "Legacy Toolset".
> And "Modern Toolset (Accelerated Graphics)" would be much more descriptive (admittedly at the expense of some verbosity).
>
> I’m torn between whether they should share the menu-section with "Display Options…" or not.  I think I’d lean towards yes as they are highly-related….

I think they should be in the same section, under Display Options...

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