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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff,

I'm on the fence on this one.  I rarely make grid changes in Eeschema
and I never use the zoom drop down in any of the kicad main windows so I
would say don't use valuable screen real estate by adding another
horizontal toolbar.  If some users absolutely have to have this, I'm
fine with implementing it but it would be nice to be able to hide the
extra toolbar for those of us who will never use it.

Wayne

On 7/31/2018 5:48 AM, Jeff Young wrote:
> Ping
> 
>> On 12 Jul 2018, at 02:46, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Just to have the link handy: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1689024
>>
>>> On 11 Jul 2018, at 15:36, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
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