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User interface tweaks #721

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
What change would like to see?

Re-order the "groups" of top-row icons and change some of the icons themselves.

Why?

The top-row buttons in RC2 are in an illogical order. Intuitively, you must do 
some sort of file manipulation before a verify or upload a sketch, and for most 
Western-language speakers that is a left-to-right order.

In almost all GUI interfaces, the file manipulation interfaces (menu/buttons) 
are on the far left, starting with "new", then open, then save. (which is what 
it is now, just in the wrong place!)

On that note, the vast majority of GUI interfaces present the three file 
manipulation icons/buttons in a universal way: A generic dog-eared document, a 
folder and a diskette.  Re-inventing them to be new and unfamiliar icons serves 
no purpose but to confuse new users!

Would this cause any incompatibilities with previous versions?  If so, how
can these be mitigated?

Reverting back to the 0.22 layout, with "verify/stop" being moved. No other 
impact.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by awebu...@hotmail.com on 21 Nov 2011 at 3:00

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I think the emphasis is on verify and compile since you can do that without 
having to use the new or save buttons.  There's a sketch opened by default and 
you can upload it without saving it or anything.

Original comment by dmel...@gmail.com on 21 Nov 2011 at 7:43