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Re: New menu structure tweaks

 

Here are the changes.

Cheers,
Michael

On 19 February 2018 at 22:42, Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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