[Feature Request] Combine buttons in Sketch task's UI to reduce the UI width

[rahmanshaber]

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Forums discussion

https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=71595&start=10

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Idea description

All the tool's UI task fits in a small width except the Sketch tasks UI.
We can combine these 2 buttons as one and do the task they do in alternative click like "Toggle Visibility" does.

adrianinsaval suggested a solution and many people agrees on that.

Ideal UI for me:
• the "Filter:" label is removed as it's easy to understand what the combobox does
• the filters combobox has checkboxes in the list allowing to select more than one filter from the combobox itself, this eliminates the need for the "select multilple" button *
• a toggle button for the visibility of listed constraints is beside the combobox, using just an eye icon to make it compact **
• the settings buttons just displays a menu with checkbox, this eliminates the need for a dialog window (better UX as it's easier to dismiss), this also eliminates the need for the restrict visibility menu (that only has one item, very bad). ***

* should be doable according to [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/842 ... checkboxes](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8422760/combobox-of-checkboxes) but I think the combobox would still close after selecting each filter, making it annoying, so more stuff would be needed to keep it open. Also it would be nice if clicking the checkbox for an item added it to the selected filters but clicking on the label made it the only filter. If the checkboxes in the combobox are too complex to implement another option is to have the "Multiple Filters" as second option after "All" in the combobox and selecting that would bring up the dialog to select them, once again eliminating the need for the dedicated button.
** alternatively the visibility toggle could be a check box at the top of the list as proposed by rahmanshaber. Or no button at all since an apropiate selection fo filters can always achieve whatever you want to do with this function.
*** should be doable according to [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/205 ... 84#2054884](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2050462/prevent-a-qmenu-from-closing-when-one-of-its-qaction-is-triggered/2054884#2054884)

@paddle @abdullah @jnxd @openBrain any of you feel like you can (and want to) tackle this?

also here's an old overview by abdullah of this issue: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=62942
and I'd like to highlight this proposal to have the filters organized in a tree style: [https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 60#p537760](https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?p=537760#p537760)

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[adrianinsaval]

this can be closed now IMO as it was fixed by #7566