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Dyalog / ride

Cross-platform IDE for Dyalog APL
https://dyalog.github.io/ride
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Get rid of config option "Show toolbar" #1227

Open aplteam opened 7 months ago

aplteam commented 7 months ago

Ride offers to switch off the toolbar in the editor:

Preferences > Trace/Edit > Show toolbar

Why would anybody want to switch this off? I think it's fair to say that 99% of the users won't.

If you switch it off by accident, like me, you might get confused when the Tracer all of a sudden does not show the icons for "Continue this thread", "Continue all threads" etc.

In essence, this feature, catering to the needs of a minute fraction of users, possesses the capacity to befuddle a significantly larger number of users than it could ever benefit.

Keep things simple, therefore get rid of this config option.

abrudz commented 7 months ago

The toolbar eats up valuable screen estate, especially when demonstrating things using a large font size: image image How about moving (or copying?) the option to View > Show Trace/Edit Toolbar, making it a bit easier to discover?