Interface customization: menus and toolbars#10863
Interface customization: menus and toolbars#10863selmaVH1 wants to merge 1 commit intoqgis:masterfrom
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Thanks for the update @selmaVH1
Well, I find the UX not really obvious and will try to open discussion or issues in code repo. Meanwhile, something I miss here is that we need to stress that only Menus and Toolbars can be expanded.
| button. To populate it with actions, open the action panel by clicking the | ||
| |listActions| button, search for the desired actions and drag and drop them onto | ||
| the user-defined menu or toolbar in the customization tree. Items within user-defined | ||
| toolbars and menus can be reordered using drag and drop. |
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Here, I'm unable to reorder the items in a user-defined toolbar. The single option I have is to remove the item and drag it again, now to the expected place. Trying to select and drag a custom item simply selects adjacent items in the tree
| * a **Toolbar**: the whole bar or some of its icons | ||
| * or any **widget** from any dialog in QGIS: label, button, combobox... | ||
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| In addition to showing or hiding existing interface elements, you can also create |
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IMHO this block about adding new menu/toolbar should be one paragraph down. The |select| tool is about hiding/showing items in the dialog, i.e., still the same topic as above
| * or any **widget** from any dialog in QGIS: label, button, combobox... | ||
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| In addition to showing or hiding existing interface elements, you can also create | ||
| user-defined toolbars and menus. To do so, select the :guilabel:`Menus` or |
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Can we go with numbered list here, to clearly show the different steps and be more verbose when appropriate?
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| In addition to showing or hiding existing interface elements, you can also create | ||
| user-defined toolbars and menus. To do so, select the :guilabel:`Menus` or | ||
| :guilabel:`Toolbars` item in the customization tree and click the |add| :sup:`Add a user defined menu or toolbar` |
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This is also possible from a right-click --> Add user item. a probably more meaningful, contextual label would be better
| toolbars and menus can be reordered using drag and drop. | ||
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| To remove a user-defined toolbar or menu, select it and click the |deleteSelected| | ||
| :sup:`Delete selected item` button. |
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| :sup:`Delete selected item` button. | |
| :sup:`Delete selected items` button. |
Also accessible from right-click with cryptic "Delete user item"
| changes. This configuration becomes the one used by default by QGIS at the next startup. | ||
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| The modifications can also be saved in a ``.ini`` file using |fileSave| | ||
| The modifications can also be saved in a ``.xml`` file using |fileSave| |
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| The modifications can also be saved in a ``.xml`` file using |fileSave| | |
| The modifications can also be saved in a :file`.xml` file using |fileSave| |
| :sup:`Save To File` button. This is a handy way to share a common QGIS | ||
| interface among multiple users. Just click on |fileOpen| :sup:`Load from File` | ||
| from the destination computer in order to import the ``.ini`` file. | ||
| from the destination computer in order to import the ``.xml`` file. |
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| from the destination computer in order to import the ``.xml`` file. | |
| from the destination computer in order to import the :file:`.xml` file. |
| Enabled` variable under :menuselection:`Settings --> Options` menu, | ||
| :guilabel:`Advanced` tab (see the :ref:`warning <optionsadvanced>`). | ||
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| In most cases, you need to restart QGIS in order to have the change applied. |
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| Once you setup your configuration, click :guilabel:`Apply` or :guilabel:`OK` to validate your | |||
| changes. This configuration becomes the one used by default by QGIS at the next startup. | |||
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We can mention that "Reset" button undoes changes done in the dialog since the last saved/applied configuration.
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fixes #10685