[Poll] Remove 'What's this?' icon from toolbar.

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Remove 'What's this?' icon from toolbar.

Yes remove it and keep it only in the menu 'Help/whats this?'
16
50%
No keep it here
7
22%
Yes remove it but put it alone in it's own toolbar.
9
28%
 
Total votes: 32
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paddle
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[Poll] Remove 'What's this?' icon from toolbar.

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Idea: Remove the icon 'What's this?' from the toolbar.

Goal : reducing the tool bars size to improve user experience.

It has been mentioned that it could be in a standalone toolbar such that it could be disabled.

My take :
I feel that the most intuitive place to find this is in the menu 'Help' rather than in the toolbars.
I'm not fond of creating additional toolbars. Beside I think the main goal with this chain of Polls is to decrease drastically the number of icons because it's very confusing for new users to have a lot of tools, so putting it in a new toolbar wouldn't help much. (Especially since it doesn't work out of the boxe and requires the installation of an addon.)
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Re: [Poll] Remove 'What's this?' icon from toolbar.

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paddle wrote: Thu Sep 15, 2022 7:38 am Idea: Remove the icon 'What's this?' from the toolbar.

Goal : reducing the tool bars size to improve user experience.
+1

IMHO "what's this?" in help menu only is ok. Plus short+F1 shortcut it's quite satisfaying.
Maybe a long press (2s) on every icon could trigger the related help command? Would be great for touchscreens.
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Re: [Poll] Remove 'What's this?' icon from toolbar.

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https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/7620
among other things, this PR moves "what's this?" into a separate toolbar so that it may be easily hidden by those of us that don't use it.
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Re: [Poll] Remove 'What's this?' icon from toolbar.

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adrianinsaval wrote: Thu Oct 20, 2022 4:24 pm among other things,
Please do not forget to update/correct the release notes when this gets merged. There are other pages that have been updated after PR7571, but I can take care of reverting those changes.
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