[Lazarus] Feature Request: hide button text in windows with toolbars

Jürgen Hestermann juergen.hestermann at gmx.de
Thu Feb 25 17:36:15 CET 2016



Am 2016-02-25 um 16:46 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
 > In the "IDE Options -> Environment -> General" you can disable images on
 > buttons (in ide dialogs) and menus.
 >
 > Would it be possible to have another option to disable text in ide
 > windows that have toolbars? Take a look at the attached screenshot. Many
 > ide windows look like the red rectangle (that isn't zoomed in the
 > screenshot, that's actual size). Yet look at how much less space is
 > taken up by the toolbars in the green rectangles.
 > These massive toolbars are wasted screenspace, and if you resize windows
 > like the Project Group window and make it narrower to fit the content of
 > the treeview better, then I get 3 rows of buttons - waisting even more
 > vertical space!
 >
 > A image with a tooltip should suffice. The added text is just bloat.

It's just the other way round:
The images are bloat.
They contain no information at all.

The best would be to avoid all these toolbars and
use on demand popup (text) lists where I can select from.
Such a text list can be filtered, sorted and searched for but pictograms cannot.




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