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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

GerbView was easy because it already has an auxiliary horizontal toolbar.

However, Eeschema does not, meaning that if we added one we’d be giving up significant screen real-estate.

Another option would be to put it in the main horizontal toolbar, but then we’d have to drop some stuff that is currently in it.  Candidates might include:
- page settings
- paste (we manage to get by without it in PcbNew)
- redraw (on the few screen glitches I’ve seen this button hasn’t helped anyway)
- footprint editor (not in current menus; should be added to Tools whether we remove the tool icon or not)
- BOM (not in the current menus; should be added to File > Export whether we remove the tool icon or not)
- update PCB
- back-annotate (needs to be added to Tools menu either way)

So,

a) leave Eeschema without grid/zoom dropdowns
b) trim toolbar icons and add dropdowns to main toolbar
c) add an auxiliary toolbar
d) something I haven’t thought of

Thoughts appreciated.

Cheers,
Jeff.