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[Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

Thank you Michael, the menu indeed looks better with your changes. I
have pushed your patch to the master branch.

Cheers,
Orson

On 02/20/2018 01:40 AM, Michael Kavanagh wrote:
> 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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