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

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Thu Feb 25 17:40:29 CET 2016



On Thu, 25 Feb 2016, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:

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> 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.

That's called a menu ?

Michael.


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