re-do menu bar?

I've just installed Librecad 2.2 and to be honest, I really dislike the menu. I don't need the Plugin, Widgets, Drawings menus at all. I could also easily do without Options, Edit and View.

What I DO need are the actual tools for drawing: the various headings under 'Tools': a 'Draw' menu containing "line" "circle" etc; 'Modify' (the actual tools I work with to alter existing elements); the 'Selection' menu; the 'Dimension' menu and the 'Information' menu.

Is it possible to re-work theings so that my main menu are the elements I actually need for the purposes of creating and altering drawings? And put all the extra stuff into a submenu somewhere?

Thanks!

currently, the menu entries are not under user settings.

The toolbars are highly configurable though.

It's conceivable to set up a full screen mode:

1, full screen mode without menu entries;
2, add a context menu entry (Exit Full Screen).

micheletrecaffe wrote

I've just installed Librecad 2.2 and to be honest, I really dislike the menu. I don't need the Plugin, Widgets, Drawings menus at all. I could also easily do without Options, Edit and View.

What I DO need are the actual tools for drawing: the various headings under 'Tools': a 'Draw' menu containing "line" "circle" etc; 'Modify' (the actual tools I work with to alter existing elements); the 'Selection' menu; the 'Dimension' menu and the 'Information' menu.

Is it possible to re-work theings so that my main menu are the elements I actually need for the purposes of creating and altering drawings? And put all the extra stuff into a submenu somewhere?

Thanks!

Here is what is crazy, tho: Librecad was once set up exactly this way, back in the 2.0 days. The main menu was, in fact, a *working* menu, where the tools needed to do the work made up the bulk of the first-level menu entries.

Now, I could download a tarball from the official repository for one of those versions, fight for a couple days to build a qt version that would work with the selected LC version and then build with gcc or...

...Or I can download the windows exe installer, open it with wine and twenty seconds later have a fully functional  Librecad up and running. And when I say 'fully functional' I mean fast and stable under wine.

Which really feels like "user-freedom" Linux shooting itself in the foot by making this whole process so cumbersome.

Anyway, for now I am going to use 2.0.11 under wine because it gives me a working menu, it's stable, it's fast and I have just saved myself hours (or days) of wrangling.

Well, while menu is not fully customizable, in
2.2.2-alpha (https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/releases/tag/2.2.2_alpha-latest) you may select it's form:

1) compact (by default)
2) medium (with separated draw/modify items) - slightly more expanded, like


3) detailed one - something like this:

oh, and regarding the menu - in 2.2.2-alpha it's also possible
1) create sophisticated context-aware popup menus (for various shortcuts and that may be custom for specific entity type)
2) hide main menu completely (as this functionality will be merged to master)

Of course, what you are talking about is creating a pop-up menu to do the meat and potatoes of any design program, while the main menu is taken up with whistles and bells, which is... odd.

Imagine driving a car where the odometer, speedometer, gps, etc., were pop-ups while the main dash was, I don't know, a button for siri/no siri; a map showing the location of the nearest cinemas and eateries; and maybe a do-dad to show the rotational speed of the tyres at any given moment...

hm.. popup is just an additional way. But if you use menu in expanded form in 2.2.2 - it will be basically the same as you've described plus some additions.

Also, if, for example, we remove Options and Workspaces menu items from main menu - how they will be accessed by the user?