[ENHANCEMENT] UX Test/Enhancement - "The Toolbox"

[eliweitzman]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
A new change to the UX flow of ETT... basically, instead of relying on menus and sub-menus, we instead build out a sidebar listbox, which has all the functions tabbed... which would allow for an enhanced method and easier ability to push custom functions in a separate menu.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Keeping it as-is, and building out tab strip imports for custom functions.

[eliweitzman]

Rough Wireframe Proof-of-Concept

[eliweitzman]

The idea is basically that we could transition all of the menu bar options into the tabbed section to the right, then add a new section, called "Custom," which would be able to accept additional functions that are custom or proprietary... effectively making custom functions far easier to implement as well.

[eliweitzman]

I think I want to tinker with this and attempt to push it in 1.3. Adding to 1.3 milestone for now.

[eliweitzman]

More testing, this time with a more active prototype and coding. More coming post-1.2.1 release!

[eliweitzman]

Soon(tm)

[eliweitzman]

First concept added to 1.3 branch, ready for further tinkering. Definitely need to work out a few quirks, and even would be open to some UAT potentially to see how we feel about it.

[eliweitzman]

Also, this is definitely the hallmark or key upgrade for v1.3

[eliweitzman]

I'm feeling good with the toolbox now, going to work on hiding/removing the duplicate tabs

[eliweitzman]

Extra tabs are hidden for now, but sitll runnable in codebase and keyboard shortcuts. Need to figure out how to migrate and remove the duplicate code... probably need to make any of our keyboard shortcut tools into functions, and keep the hidden tab strip items.