The View Menu is Too Long

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Quite apart from the display problems on monitors with only 768 vertical pixels, the view menu is too long for accessibility purposes. If there are too many items on one menu it creates issues with accessiblity shortcuts, and makes selection  slower. 

 

It would be better to add a Tools menu, and move several items to that. 

 

The attachment highlights numerous items that have no access key. The zoom items are OK where they are, but they could be moved to a submenu since most users will soon learn to use the shortcut keys, or will only use the scroll wheel for zooming. 

 

The Tools items do not belong on a view menu. 

 

Suggestion:

 

Z Zoom >

L Rotate Left

R Rotate Right

E Reset Rotation

M View Mode >

N New View 

V Views >

A Show Margins

G Show Guides

I Show Grid

U Show Rulers Ctrl R

S Studios >

P Move to Previous View Point

X Move to Next View Point

T Toggle UI F4

 

Move all other items to a new Tools menu.

[Chris B]

We've got this logged already. This gets cut off on small laptop screens at higher DPI's. I'll bump the report. Cheers :)

[bookmarkmns01]

I agree, the current menu doesn't work well on a 768px laptop.

 

I cannot see the last items on the menu and using the arrow keys didn't display the missing items at the bottom of the menu.

 

Edit: Good to see it is logged.

 

Mark

[Chris B]

Hi Mark,

 

We are starting to see a few users raise this issue so hopefully development will consider it to be of higher priority now.

[Mark Ingram]

The View menu has been shortened for the next build (the zoom commands are now on a sub-menu).