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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I like keeping it shorter but TBH the exact wording of this seems not super
important because these menu options will be gone by 6.0 with any luck...

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 5:40 PM, Michael Kavanagh <
michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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