Choose your own toolbar buttons, mouse gestures and shortcuts, in one Customise window

[ispyisail]

Today the toolbars in QElectroTech are fixed: you can show or hide a whole toolbar, but you can't add the commands you use most or remove the ones you never use. Mouse gestures (right-drag) always show the same commands as the shortcut bar (S), so you can't choose one set for each. Some menu commands can't be given a keyboard shortcut at all, because they are missing from the Shortcuts page. SolidWorks, and FreeCAD in the same way, put all of this in one Tools → Customize window. I'd like to do the same for QElectroTech.

The shortcut bar, mouse gestures, command search and the Shortcuts page already exist (from #1033 and #587). This proposal is about letting you set them up, not about adding new ways to run commands.

Proposed, each as its own pull request:

1. Every command can have a shortcut. About half of the folio editor's commands are missing from the Shortcuts page today. Nothing else changes on screen.
2. Better Shortcuts page: icons, a category filter, press a key to see what uses it, and copy the list into a spreadsheet.
3. Toolbar settings: icon size, text under the icons, and lock the toolbars so they can't be dragged by accident.
4. Choose toolbar buttons: drag any command onto a toolbar, remove buttons, make your own toolbar, and reset to the defaults.
5. Choose your mouse gestures separately from the shortcut bar, with 4 or 8 directions.
6. One Customise… window in the Settings menu, with a tab for each of the above.

Nothing changes for anyone who never opens these settings. Nothing is saved in project files; all of it is a per-user setting. Renaming menu items is not included, because a renamed item stops following the language setting and no longer matches the wiki.

Questions:

• Is this wanted, and is the order right?
• Should it be one Customise window, like SolidWorks, or more pages in the existing Configure QElectroTech window?
• Should hiding and reordering menu items be included, or left out?

[ispyisail]

[neitri]

In the 20 years I’ve been using a PC, I think I’ve used this function exactly once—when I added a "forward to recipient group" button to the toolbar.
QET has a limited number of buttons; they all fit on a single row. This function will become more in demand only when there are three rows of buttons and the icons are sized at 16x16.
Perhaps someone has more extensive experience configuring the menu.