Posted by gerardbm on
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/All-menus-visible-and-customizable-tp5713453.html

Hi!

I've worked in technical drawing (architecture) for nine years, so I'm opening a suggestion from my experience. Mainly I worked with Nemetschek Allplan, since version FT 16 to 2009, and a bit of AutoCAD 14 to 2010.

First of all, I'm glad to see how LibreCAD has been improved. It's really getting serious, and it's a real alternative.You did a very good job here: LibreCAD has a lot of functions to make the work faster and easier.

However, it would be nice if all menus were always visible, so we would skip one click most of the times (the click to access internal menus or the click needed to go back to the main menu). Why so many clicks? I suppose it's a thing dragged from QCAD.

In my opinion, to have too many buttons in the GUI is not a problem in that kind of software, on the contrary, it helps being productive. In a normal day of work we can make thousands of clicks, so reducing them is always a good improvement. Like you did with the Snap toolbar, putting it at the top.

Actually, I wouldn't force the menus position. Simply, create toolbars (Draw, Dimension, Modify) so we can put them where we wish: in the left side, right side, top or bottom. Sometimes, the simpler, the better; and it's the case.

I really think this change would be an important improvement.

Regards!