[josm-dev] Dynamic buttons in side menus

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Sat, 15 Oct 2011, Ilya Zverev wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:11:42 +0300, Komяpa wrote:
>>  I got used to dynamic buttons almost immediately. Just clicked where
>>  they usually were, and they appeared right under mouse cursor.
>
> The key word being "usually were". New users will feel a big WTF not seeing 
> any buttons in those panels, and they won't get used to it (because why 
> should they? there's simple and obvious potlatch). I too have 13whatever by 
> 768 screen, and 4-5 panels enabled - and there's enough space. Even if it 
> weren't, as I said, the panels are there not to watch, but to edit, and in 
> either case one has to scroll the list. But now it is not as obvious: you see 
> the line, but you can't get to it. You need a button, but you don't see it. 
> The option undoubtely is useful for some, but it is not good UI decision, so 
> I propose to turn it off by default, not remove.

Wow, the same discussion as for virtual nodes. As I was unsure whether 
this should be default or now it was not default for a longer time in 
which I had a lot of people testing this. None of them really complained, 
but they like the additional freedom of the display in the right side.

Ciao
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