On 19 February 2018 at 12:26, Jeff Young <[email protected]> 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... > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
