[IDEA] Make It Standard and Simpler: Buttons on Edit Toolbar, View Toolbar, Editor Toolbar

[kookma]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

• Adding a new Editor Toolbar button is easy and there is quick tutorial with automatic creation of toolbar button (Thanks to @pmario)
• The Editor Toolbar button is the standard, easiest and very flexible
  • The body only keeps the actions, no need for button, and all headaches
  • The fields keep conditions, caption, description, icon, color, ...

Describe the solution you'd like

• Let's have a unique, standard procedure for creating UI buttons for editor, edit and view toolbars
• Later on, this procedure may be extended to other UI buttons

The Editor Toolbar Button Anatomy

What do you think?

[pmario]

I am not 100% sure, what you want to achieve, but I think I have a good guess.

I could think of a new [add button] button at the ControlPanel -> Appearence -> Toolbars tab, which allows us to create "new boilerplate" buttons, where users "only" have to fill in the needed info. All the possible / needed fields could be predefined, similar to the editor-toolbar example you mentioned.

The hard work will be "good documentation" near the new [add button] button.

I think in combination with the upcoming lucide-icon library editions we should also not have an icon-shortage ;)

[pmario]

• Let's have a unique, standard procedure for creating UI buttons for editor, edit and view toolbars

Since the page-toolbar, tiddler-toolbar and the edit-toolbar buttons are slightly different, we will probably need 3 different procedures and "boilerplate" templates.

Especially the connection between the toolbar buttons and keyboard-shortcuts will need special attention for the docs.

[kookma]

I am not 100% sure, what you want to achieve, but I think I have a good guess.

I mean to have a standard procedure. One form of implementation. In more precise words:

• have text field for actions
• no need to add buttons manually
• have all configurations like icon, color, caption, hint, ... in fields

This is what we have for Editor Toolbar.

Right now every UI button category has a different way of implementation

[kookma]

I could think of a new [add button] button at the ControlPanel -> Appearence -> Toolbars tab, which allows us to create "new boilerplate" buttons, where users "only" have to fill in the needed info. All the possible / needed fields could be predefined, similar to the editor-toolbar example you mentioned.

Good idea, I support this. This lets average users to add UI buttons.