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[Michael Kavanagh <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm doing them now. Can I suggest we use "Modern Toolset
(Accelerated)" instead of "(Accelerated Graphics)"? Just for the
aesthetics.

Cheers,
Michael

On 19 February 2018 at 20:44, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> No worries, Michael.  I can even do the canvas selection changes if you want me to.
>
> Cheers,
> Jeff.
>
>
>> On 19 Feb 2018, at 18:21, Michael Kavanagh <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> 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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