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How about a tools drop-down?  Or Online Optimization Coach???? (You can 
do it, Vincent!)

Neil ⊥

On 07/11/2012 10:47 AM, Robby Findler wrote:
> Well, how many of the things currently in the View menu are nify
> tools? The module browser at least?
>
> We have too many buttons up there-- we need fewer. We need a more
> scalable way to include these things.
>
> Check Syntax should go away (and it will when online check syntax is
> done), for example.
>
> Robby
>
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Neil Toronto <neil.toronto at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I would hate to hide a nifty new tool away in a menu item.
>>
>> How about using narrower text on the button? It doesn't have to be the same
>> as the GUI's title text.
>>
>> By analogy, a tool has two kinds of icons: a logo and a toolbar icon. In
>> general, a logo is memorable, possibly abstract, and indicates what the tool
>> *is*. (For example, the steppers' logos are feet.) A toolbar icon indicates
>> what the tool *does* when you click the icon. The GUI's title and the
>> toolbar text can have the same is/does distinction.
>>
>> Another option is to split the toolbar into two parts. Or have two dockable
>> toolbars. I know that's more work for Robby... :D
>>
>> Neil ⊥
>>
>>
>> On 07/11/2012 10:03 AM, Robby Findler wrote:
>>>
>>> Not to be a PITA, but the buttons are huge and if they are now always
>>> there, we should be doing something different with the UI. The view
>>> menu would be my first suggestion for where this should go.
>>>
>>> Robby
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Vincent St-Amour <stamourv at ccs.neu.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> At Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:37:19 -0700,
>>>> Neil Toronto wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 07/11/2012 09:25 AM, stamourv at racket-lang.org wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 84feb38 Vincent St-Amour <stamourv at racket-lang.org> 2011-10-11 14:26
>>>>>> :
>>>>>> | Enable performance report no matter the language.
>>>>>> :
>>>>>>      M collects/typed-racket/optimizer/tool/tool.rkt | 21
>>>>>> +++++++++++++++++++--
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I can't tell from the overall diff. Does that also include student
>>>>> languages?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Oops, good point. It does.
>>>>
>>>> I'll see how the Macro Stepper avoids that problem, and do the same.
>>>>
>>>> Vincent
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>>
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