Customizable tool bar

[Jaws4038]

How about a customizable tool bar for thing you use often, especially for users who can't remember keyboard shortcuts.

[henmedia]

@Jaws4038 Thanks for the idea. Two things already help when you don't want to remember shortcuts: Ctrl+K (or the magnifier in the toolbar) opens the command search. Type a few letters of what you want, for example "mirror", and press Enter. With the field empty, it lists the commands you used last at the top. And every toolbar button shows its name and its shortcut when you rest the pointer on it.

Which tools would you put on your own bar? That helps me see what is hard to reach today.

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[Jaws4038]

Something like maybe 2 or three things from each category, maybe copy, paste, shapes like square and circle, align, combine, uncombine, export, maybe a "save as" button.

[henmedia]

@Jaws4038 Thanks, that helps. Most of these are already buttons of their own: Copy and Paste at the start of the toolbar, Group and Ungroup under "Combine", Align under "Arrange", Export under "Manage" (with "Save as…" in the export window), and the basic shapes at the top of the shape library on the right. If your window is narrow, a group that doesn't fit folds into one button with a small arrow under it, and its tools only show when you click it. To keep every group open, click the pin in the title row above the toolbar ("Keep all groups open"). layerling remembers it. "Toolbar size: Small" in the workspace settings (the gear at the right end of the toolbar) also gives the buttons more room. Do you see all your tools now?

[henmedia]

@Jaws4038 a step in this direction is built for the next version: in the settings, under Appearance, Buttons in the ribbon lets you take out every group and button you don't use, so the ribbon keeps only the ones you want, for example copy, paste, align, group and export. What you take out stays in the command search (Ctrl+K).

[henmedia]

@Jaws4038 it's out now in layerling 1.154.0: Settings, Appearance, Buttons in the ribbon keeps only the buttons you want in the ribbon.

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