Bug 129139

Summary:	wish: place the most used menu actions on toolbar
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	Nick Shaforostoff <shafff>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Stephan Kulow <coolo>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
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Description Nick Shaforostoff 2006-06-14 12:26:50 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.3)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

i think feature to place the most used (or the most recently used) menu actions on toolbar would be nice.

for example: i often need to select char encoding in kate, konqueror - but only koi/cp1251/utf8

and kate toobar is only half filled w/ icons - the residuary space could be used for these commands

of course the other solution for this particular example is ability to assign shortcuts for charsets - i'll also post such proposition - but, as a whole, the behaviour proposed in this report (activated by default) would facilitate user when working w/ all kde apps.
(one click is always fater then finding needed action in the crowded menus...)

Comment 1 Stephan Kulow 2006-06-14 12:28:54 UTC

self modifying UIs are _very_ controverse. And the toolbar editor is there for you to modify. I guess we could support your wish in ordering the provided actions by past use.

Comment 2 Nick Shaforostoff 2006-06-14 12:44:03 UTC

we already have self modifying UIs - File->Recent files.

maybe there can be extra menu (beside File, Edit, etc) w/ recently used commands

of course, reordering long menus is better then nothing...

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2020-09-30 04:16:11 UTC

If we did this, people would probably hate it to have the toolbar buttons switching around all the time, I think. Microsoft tried this with the menu items in MS Word and predictably, people hated it.

The only way that dynamic UIs can work is if the dynamic area is itself well delineated and separated from everything else. You don't want the things that are typically fixed to suddenly be non-fixed. It freaks people out.