[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

IMO if the DET functions are to have drop down menus on toolbar icons, then the equivalent menu items should have flyout menus.

So far as I know, the Tool Plugin framework gives me no control over the Plugin menu behavior (at least it didn't at the time the plugin was created—that could have changed since). The configuration option would indeed exist in both places (fly-out menu and toolbar dropdown) if it did.

EDIT: actually, it looks as if I can easily add the configuration option to the plugin menu. I'll get that change made. Just be aware that even though there'll be a fly-out menu on the plugin menu entry, it will still be the same terribly inefficient, horribly unintuitive, (not to mention impossible to find) check-box that's on the Toolbar's dropdown menu. But at least you'll have all the options without having to use the Toolbar.

Originally Posted by BetterRed

If an icon is not well-known or bleedin' obvious then an icon's purpose is often difficult to intuit; a'la Sigil's power-plugs that look like granny's flat-irons.

Still on about not knowing what a power cord (the plug end) looks like, eh? What flat-iron ever had two prongs sticking out the side?

Originally Posted by BetterRed

In this instance, it would help if the order in which the plugin tools are shown in the menu and on the toolbar were the same.

Reorder the icons in the Toolbar (through the Editor's Toolbar preferences) to match the order they show up in the menu then. I, as a plugin developer, have no control over the latter (looks alphabetical to me). You, as a user, have control over the former.

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Does Sigil's Tag Mechanic, which what I normally use to fix spans etc, have this drop down issue. I don't show tool bars in Sigil either.

No. Sigil's version has no separate config for choosing which files the plugin operates on. The html files that are selected in the Book Browser when the plugin is launched are the ones that are affected. The very first bolded list-item in the Sigil equivalent's support thead states:

1) This plugin operates on the Text files selected/highlighted in Sigil's Book Browser, so make sure you highlight the files you want to work with before launching the plugin.

I know written instructions aren't cool anymore. That everything that's not immediately intuitable (by all sentient creatures) by merely glancing at a UI is deemed an interface failure in this day and age, but ... . I'm still a firm believer in RTFM (however poorly written, insufficient and inconvenient that M may be).