KiCad

Faster learning curve with improved dropdown menus and toolbar icons

Registered by Marco van Steen

Each button in the toolbars should also be available in the dropdown menu.
This is a standard windows GUI convention.

This is useful to assure the user only has to check right mouse button menu + top-dropdown menus to see if/how something can be done. Now also the toolbar buttons and their yellow flags need to be checked.

Especially enabling buttons like the library / footprint editors earn a spot in the dropdown menus.

Second point is: on modern displays the toolbar icons are quite small. It would increase the productivity greatly to have buttons that are 1.5 or 2x the current size.

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I tottally agree that making options available in menus will make them more visible. Kicad has multiple functions, but sometimes it takes too much time to discover them.

Also i think some functions which are context at the moment (for example zone refilling available only when editing zones) will benefit from being available form standard menus.

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