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Originally Posted by jony08
I don't understand why it was better to have a Layout button then
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Less clutter, and some people have difficulty interpreting icons. I'm pretty hopeless at it, which is why I use book list context menus, rather than tool bars.
Adding a new hide and show element as a discrete icon would be more clutter, and create the need to find yet another
informative icon, whereas adding it to a drop down list is tidier, and the icon used is almost irrelevant. And the user gets to see the keyboard shortcuts.
I have no idea how many threads there are with - "
how come the Tag browser/Book details panel disappeared", to which I and others have had to respond with "
click the luggage tag/brown book icon at bottom right". But it's a lot. It happens when someone inadvertently hits Shift+Alt+T/D etc.
Calibre has about 3 million
active users, on 3 baseline operating systems. Changes to the User Interface must take those factors into a account. Kovid applies the principles of
Kaizen.
BR