Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars

[Richard Stallman]

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  > 1. Let Emacs enable people to add things to the toolbar for commands,
  >    without having to use elisp programming.  The survey suggests that
  >    those focused on elisp are a minority.

We have non-Lisp ways of making key bindings -- M-x global-set-key,
for instance.  If that is inconvenient or unobvious to use with the
toolbar, can we make it convenient and obvious?

Eli said:

  > If we want to appear by default more like other GUI apps out there,
  > then we should bite the bullet and show some widget that allows to
  > toggle on/off those parts of the UI (tool bar, menu bar, scroll bars,
  > etc.), like they do.

I agree.

Can we arrange a way to program such dialogs from Lisp?
That would be an elegant way to solve all these UI problems.
We tried to do this with Customize, but it doesn't equal the
smoothness and elegance of the customization GUIs of other programs.





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