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[Michael Kavanagh <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Minor modification. Sorry for the noise.

On 19 February 2018 at 23:07, Michael Kavanagh
<michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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