View menu in main gui window

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From discussion on IRC, user Kazuma wants more of a minimalist gui. A
compromise to this would be to create a view menu where the user can choose
whether the toolbar and filter box should be displayed.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ebenbl...@gmail.com on 8 May 2008 at 6:27

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Assigning this to Tillin9 since he's been doing a lot of gui cleanup lately. 
Tillin,
is this something you'd be willing to implement?

Original comment by ebenbl...@gmail.com on 8 May 2008 at 6:28

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I have no problem with a minimalist GUI option. What exactly do you mean by a 
view 
menu, just a menu to select what GUI components are viewed? From IRC it seemed 
that 
Kazuma just didn't want to see the toolbar. 

Original comment by sknau...@wesleyan.edu on 9 May 2008 at 3:23

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By view menu, I mean a menu named "View" that contains checkbox menu items such 
as
"Toolbar", "Rom Filter", and "Status bar". By default, both of these are 
checked, but
if they are unchecked by the user, the corresponding widget disappears from the 
gui
display and the rom browser fills up the space that was there.

Kazuma's a minimalist, but not everyone else is. I suggested the view menu as a
compromise so minimalists could remove things from the gui. Kazuma said this 
approach
would suit his needs.

Original comment by ebenbl...@gmail.com on 9 May 2008 at 5:47

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Okay, this should be very easy to implement codewise. I'm somewhat hesitant to 
add 
a menu for just the

- Toolbar
- Filter
- Status bar

Thinking a Configuration Tab might be better. However, depending on the final 
configuration of the Debugger / VCR GUI options, a menu may be more 
appropriate. 

Setting to low priority. 

Original comment by sknau...@wesleyan.edu on 9 May 2008 at 1:03

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• Removed labels: Priority-Medium

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I see a renewed use for this.  Now with the debugger being brought back into the
trunk, I'm planning a rewrite of the debugger GUI.

Once the 1.4 release is locked down, I want to scrap the extra windows, and move
everything to a dock able interface.  As well, we've added enough new features 
to the
debugger that there are far too many windows for the whole thing to be 
manageable. 
Basically, for the debugger alone, we NEED a view menu to be able to turn extra
windows on or off.

Original comment by jezte...@gmail.com on 25 May 2008 at 7:52

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Basic view menu added in r667. 

Original comment by sknau...@wesleyan.edu on 22 Jun 2008 at 12:19

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