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Hide expand button when all toolbar buttons are pinned

Open Commenter25 opened this issue 2 years ago • 5 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. All I need is select all and clipboard, which I pinned for efficiency. But in this case, there is now an arrow button which does nothing but show me that which was already there. This takes up space, causing more suggestion truncation.

Describe the solution you'd like When all enabled toolbar buttons are pinned, hide the expand button.

Use case For people who only need their pinned buttons.

Describe alternatives you've considered Just an option to toggle the button's visibility, rather than checking if all buttons are pinned.

Additional context useless button

Commenter25 avatar Apr 21 '24 18:04 Commenter25

An excellent point I had not fully considered. Perhaps pinning should simply be put in the settings. It doesn't seem like something one would want to do often, and having it in the settings would be much more obvious than having to explain it in the hidden features text dump. This would also prevent conflict with the feature requests for actions when holding a key. Perhaps an extra button per item in the select toolbar keys menu, or even a separate menu for toggling pinning.

Of course, ultimately, I'd be happy with just a toggle to hide that button for a bit more screen real estate. Just giving my two cents on how to more intuitively implement this.

Commenter25 avatar Apr 22 '24 01:04 Commenter25

Perhaps pinning should simply be put in the settings. It doesn't seem like something one would want to do often

I intentionally kept the long-press pinning, as there was already some discussion or request where a user mentioned they are frequently using the toolbar key pin/unpin and didn't want it in the settings.

Helium314 avatar Apr 23 '24 19:04 Helium314

Suppose this is an instance of Hyrum's Law.

If we're accounting for the usecase of constantly pinning and unpinning things using the long press, it'd probably just be confusing to attempt to make hiding the expand button automatic. So, I'm out of more thought out ideas than "add a checkbox" :p

I still think a menu in the settings alongside the long press would be good for discoverability, and to rearrange without unpinning/repinning stuff. It's not really necessary though. All up to subjectivity, I think. Not really relevant to this issue, anymore at least.

Commenter25 avatar Apr 24 '24 00:04 Commenter25

Hi, Alternatively, I'd like to suggest adding a Pin all toolbar keys checkbox in settings, which, when checked, removes the expand button. Thanks

KaKi87 avatar Jun 01 '24 23:06 KaKi87

would love to see this feature. imho the button just shouldn't be shown if all toolbar keys have been disabled, in which case also the "Auto show/hide toolbar" switches should always be disabled (makes no sense). the user still has the option to pin toolbar keys.

GenericMale avatar Jan 20 '25 14:01 GenericMale