OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs

Add panel toggles to View menu

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#1,497 opened on Dec 4, 2023

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good first issueinterface

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Description

Currently, panels (and toolbars) can be hidden or made visible only by right-clicking on the toolbars or on the header of a panel to open a small menu. This works fine but is non-obvious and hard to discover, leading possibly to frustration if a panel is closed accidentally.

It would be a good idea to add the panels to the View menu, perhaps as a sub-menu under View|Layout, or under two separate sub-menus for View|Toolbars and View|Panes.

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Research direction
Inspect the existing View menu implementation in the codebase, and find how panels and toolbars are toggled. Then add menu items that trigger the same visibility toggles, reusing existing actions or commands where possible.
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
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2
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1-3 hours
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Active
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Clear
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75