After searching through the forums, I've found that nobody ever responds to this topic. Can't somebody, for once, actually give some information on this? Even a simple "no this isn't possible right now" would be fine. Thanks.
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I would like to have the same feature, too.
Look at notepad2: it has the simple tools to customize the toolbar.
I feel more comfortable with simple toolbars, like the one in SciTE or notepad2.
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Just because you don't think it's necessary doesn't mean others feel the same way (IMHO, you should never imply someone's question or suggestion is silly because you personally "don't think there's a need" or "I would never use that feature").
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1) There aren't that many buttons in the toolbar - there's no need to manage them, because they all fit into the screen.
2) There are a lot of features that are more important than this one, that is why i don't think it will (ever) be implemented.
3) I never said or implied that this is silly or stupid (or whatever).
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While it seems to not be a commonly-used feature, it certainly exists (see MS Office products, pre-Ribbon, for example).
I could see this feature being useful if plugins could add their own buttons to the toolbar (not sure if this is currently possible or not). A user might install 15 plugins and end up with a huge toolbar filled with buttons they don't want/need. The ability to customize the toolbar would be helpful in that scenario.
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> 3) I never said or implied that this is silly or stupid (or whatever).
Let me be the one, then. I think your (the original requester) behavior is very childish. Go play outside, instead of using a computer that has too many features for you.
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Wow. How sad that the open source community has to deal with people who don't see a reason to allow people to customize their software. Personally, I like to keep my window small, so it'd be handy to be able to remove stuff like the macro commands I don't use often.
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To start with, it would be better that a feature request be posted on IdeaTorrent.
Adding customisation for the toolbar has two very distinct sides:
# Notepad++ functions: this is the easy part, as NP++ knows about all the buttons it can offer.
# Plugin functions: While Notepad++ can remember what buttons were added at load time, it cannot be sure that it knows about all buttons to choose from. There is a need for some mechanism to ask that to plugins. And, more importantly, to deal with all those plugins that do not implement the mechanism.
Of course, I'm glossing over "details", like how to store the toolbar state between sessions, how to deal with button descriptions that won't resolve on a new machine, etc, etc.
The net result is that this functionality would be quite tricky to implement in a consistent way. There are quite a few features that have been clamoured for for years and are not yet here, so pergaps should these get development effort qllotted first. We'd be glad to have more active developers.
CChris
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Hi, so there is really no way to customize the button bar right now?
If you install the webedit plugin to get something very useful, the buttonbar is "to big" - I also think custom buttons are a totally basic feature. Just lost 20 minutes of my life because I was searching for this feature - I could not believe, it is not there.
Back to Editplus then…
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As I said, the way I see it, it can be done with surprising, probably undesirable results. And eliminating that bad part will require work not only from Notepad++ developers, but from pluin developers too.
If someone comes up with an implementation and submits it in Tracker / Patches, fine, it could even get in released code. Someone said it's open source, I heard?
CChris
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Is there a way to remove icons from the toolbar?
No responses yet... Is this possible?
view->toolbar->hide ? Is that what you want?
"view->toolbar->hide ? Is that what you want?"
I don't have that in my menu - is it in the latest version? I can disable them in Settings/Preferences/Global.
After searching through the forums, I've found that nobody ever responds to this topic. Can't somebody, for once, actually give some information on this? Even a simple "no this isn't possible right now" would be fine. Thanks.
No this isn't possible and i don't think it will ever be possible (IMHO, there is no need for that).
I would like to have the same feature, too.
Look at notepad2: it has the simple tools to customize the toolbar.
I feel more comfortable with simple toolbars, like the one in SciTE or notepad2.
Just because you don't think it's necessary doesn't mean others feel the same way (IMHO, you should never imply someone's question or suggestion is silly because you personally "don't think there's a need" or "I would never use that feature").
1) There aren't that many buttons in the toolbar - there's no need to manage them, because they all fit into the screen.
2) There are a lot of features that are more important than this one, that is why i don't think it will (ever) be implemented.
3) I never said or implied that this is silly or stupid (or whatever).
While it seems to not be a commonly-used feature, it certainly exists (see MS Office products, pre-Ribbon, for example).
I could see this feature being useful if plugins could add their own buttons to the toolbar (not sure if this is currently possible or not). A user might install 15 plugins and end up with a huge toolbar filled with buttons they don't want/need. The ability to customize the toolbar would be helpful in that scenario.
> 3) I never said or implied that this is silly or stupid (or whatever).
Let me be the one, then. I think your (the original requester) behavior is very childish. Go play outside, instead of using a computer that has too many features for you.
Why was his behavior childish?
Wow. How sad that the open source community has to deal with people who don't see a reason to allow people to customize their software. Personally, I like to keep my window small, so it'd be handy to be able to remove stuff like the macro commands I don't use often.
Customize toolbar obligatory attribute of modern programs
At me I am a lot of plugins which I use but is far not all buttons me are necessary
To start with, it would be better that a feature request be posted on IdeaTorrent.
Adding customisation for the toolbar has two very distinct sides:
# Notepad++ functions: this is the easy part, as NP++ knows about all the buttons it can offer.
# Plugin functions: While Notepad++ can remember what buttons were added at load time, it cannot be sure that it knows about all buttons to choose from. There is a need for some mechanism to ask that to plugins. And, more importantly, to deal with all those plugins that do not implement the mechanism.
Of course, I'm glossing over "details", like how to store the toolbar state between sessions, how to deal with button descriptions that won't resolve on a new machine, etc, etc.
The net result is that this functionality would be quite tricky to implement in a consistent way. There are quite a few features that have been clamoured for for years and are not yet here, so pergaps should these get development effort qllotted first. We'd be glad to have more active developers.
CChris
Hi, so there is really no way to customize the button bar right now?
If you install the webedit plugin to get something very useful, the buttonbar is "to big" - I also think custom buttons are a totally basic feature. Just lost 20 minutes of my life because I was searching for this feature - I could not believe, it is not there.
Back to Editplus then…
As I said, the way I see it, it can be done with surprising, probably undesirable results. And eliminating that bad part will require work not only from Notepad++ developers, but from pluin developers too.
If someone comes up with an implementation and submits it in Tracker / Patches, fine, it could even get in released code. Someone said it's open source, I heard?
CChris