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Anders Lund anders at alweb.dk
Tue Oct 16 21:17:16 BST 2007


On Monday 15 October 2007, David Faure wrote:
> On Monday 15 October 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > On 15.10.07 18:21:44, Leo Savernik wrote:
> > > Am Montag, 15. Oktober 2007 schrieb Andreas Hartmetz:
> > > > > Just cut buttons off until there are only 4 left, all the actions
> > > > > are available from the menus anyways :p
> > > >
> > > > Yeah, toolbars are only useful if you don't have to hunt for the
> > > > right button. OS X-like grouping of toolbuttons into bars is quite
> > > > helpful for me. The Domino style does that.
> > > > That being said, the first thing I do after installing a vanilla KDE
> > > > is to throw out about 2/3 of the toolbuttons. [...]
> > >
> > > And after each minor upgrade, you do it again, don't you?
> >
> > Only if the apps xmlgui file was changed between the releases which
> > doesn't happen that often I think.
>
> We should provide a way for apps to separate the menu ui.rc file and the
> toolbar ui.rc file, to solve this problem.

Wouldn't it be quite simple to leave out actions that are not in the users 
ui.rc file even after a upgrade (and keep those in the user file that is not 
int the system one)? That way only actions that was *added* to the toolbar by 
the new version would be added.

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Anders

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