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Bug 11818 - Better customization of Menus, Toolbars, etc.
Summary: Better customization of Menus, Toolbars, etc.
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Window System (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: All All
: P4 blocker (vote)
Assignee: David Simonek
URL:
Keywords: UI
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2001-04-27 18:24 UTC by dmladek
Modified: 2008-12-22 21:45 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description dmladek 2001-04-27 18:24:31 UTC 
There is possible to customize lots of things in ide.
From its default (full) looks its quite easy to remove them.
But how to bring them back? I know only one way:

In user.dir/system/ delete apropriate "xxx hidden" file

I'll bet no ordinary user will know this.
It will needs some visual tool how to add/remove the items.
(Like the old jarpackager behave: 2 panels between them buttons ADD, REMOVE)
Comment 1 Jan Chalupa 2001-05-05 20:32:15 UTC 
Target milestone -> 3.3
Comment 2 Jan Chalupa 2001-11-27 11:52:30 UTC 
Target milestone -> 3.3.1.
Comment 3 Jan Chalupa 2001-11-27 11:56:15 UTC 
Target milestone -> 3.3.1.
Comment 4 Jan Chalupa 2002-01-11 14:02:56 UTC 
Target milestone -> 3.4
Comment 5 Jan Chalupa 2002-01-11 14:06:42 UTC 
Target milestone -> 3.4
Comment 6 Jan Chalupa 2002-01-11 14:08:02 UTC 
Target milestone -> 3.4
Comment 7 Jan Chalupa 2002-01-11 14:11:03 UTC 
Target milestone -> 3.4
Comment 8 David Simonek 2002-01-28 16:25:03 UTC 
Reassigning to Jiri. Please evaluate, thanks.
Comment 9 Marek Grummich 2002-07-22 08:33:04 UTC 
Target milestone was changed from '3.4' to TBD.
Comment 10 Marek Grummich 2002-07-22 08:44:09 UTC 
Target milestone was changed from '3.4' to TBD.
Comment 11 David Simonek 2002-07-26 13:57:21 UTC 
Interesting proposal - general solution would involve filesystems to
provide some extra info about objects marked as hidden, and special
nodes (presentation layer) to form some traditional tree-like view for
anvanced users to allow them hide/show menu, toolbar and other actions.
However, it would be implementation intensive, a lot of work. Needs
discusssion on mailing lists if it is worth.
Comment 12 dmladek 2002-07-26 14:46:00 UTC 
OK, thanks....at last some reasonable take cahrge of it
could you start it with it on mailing list?
Comment 13 Marian Mirilovic 2002-12-06 17:57:15 UTC 
reassigne to Marek, new owner of ui subcomponents
Comment 14 mslama 2004-04-19 15:04:10 UTC 
Assigning to Tim
Comment 15 Jan Chalupa 2004-11-01 16:50:08 UTC 
Re-assigning Tim's issues to Dafe.
Comment 16 David Simonek 2005-04-28 16:26:32 UTC 
Customization of menus isn't desirable (very few users want this), customization
of toolbar is being solved by Hanz in his options/settings simplification work,
so closing this as obsolete.