Several smaller toolbars instead of Commands bar

[Bug Importer]

It should be split into several new bars, with grouping similar to that in
the menus.

For example:

File bar(New, Open, Save, Print, Quit, Import, Export)

Edit bar(Undo, Redo, Copy, Cut Paste)

Objects(?) bar: (Duplicate, Group, Ungroup)
Logically, couldn't these also go on the Tool Controls bar for the object
selector?

View bar(Zoom to selection, drawing, page)

Dialogs bar(Fill and Stroke, Text and Font, Xml Editor, Align and
Distribute, Global Preferences, Document Preferences)

[Horkana-users (horkana-users)]

This sounds like something I'd request but it this case it
is not.

part of the problem is that GTK toolbars do not allow for
"Docking" that is you cannot have two toolbars in row,
horizontall end to end.
Until this is fixed having many small toolbars would waste
massive amounts of screen space.
For now Inkscape needs to try and keep its toolbars to
roughly 600-800 pixels wide to remain usable on small screens.

Even if it was possible, it might make sense for inkscape to
have more toolbars but not in the way you describe, there
are certain conventions to be followed.

Toolbars are intended to provide quick access to the most
regularly used items. It is not expected that you woudl
have toolbars for everything.

Many applications have a standard toolbar with some of the
File and Edit items on them, but not items like Quit that
you wouldn't want to hit accidentally.

A view bar would be slightly redundant with the Zoom tool
Options and the Zoom widget in the status bar already taking
care of most of that. if there were better toolbar widgets
the duplication might be acceptable but I dont think it
would be acceptable otherwise.

Dialogs bar would be redundant, much of the functionality
that was in dialogs has gone into the Tool Options Palette.

[Ryan Lerch (ryanlerch)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this feature request and helping to make Inkscape better. You requested this feature a long while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering; is this still on your wishlist? Can you try with latest Inkscape release and see if recent improvements have obsoleted your request? Thanks in advance

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

I can confirm this is still an issue, so marking to confirmed.

However, I wonder if the underlying issue could be solved other than splitting toolbar icons to different toolbars. If the motivation is to enable fitting more toolbar buttons in a narrower window, or hiding less necessary toolbar icons, perhaps this could be done in a manner other than breaking things out into separate toolbars?

[grey tomorrow (gtomorrow)]

Hi - thanks for reporting this bug, I've manually migrated it to Inkscape's new bug tracker on GitLab, and closed it here.

Please feel free to file new bugs about the issues you're seeing at
https://inkscape.org/report .

Moved to: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/issues/3515
Closed by: https://gitlab.com/greytomorrow