Allow configurating the viewport

[trungleduc]

Always displaying the transform control makes it easy to accidentally move the objects while rotating the camera. Other CAD software do not activate the transform control by default. I think we should follow this behavior.

Since we had already the dialog to show and hide the axes helper, we can change this dialog to a viewport config dialog with the following items:

• Toggle axes helper
• Toggle object highlight mode: using a bounding box or using highlight color
• Highlight or bounding box color selector
• Viewport background color, it would be great if we could support gradient color.

We could reuse the setting system of JupyterLab to persist the viewport config.

[martinRenou]

Agreed! A simple toggle button like the wireframe may be enough

[arjxn-py]

Makes Sense! Will be happy to do it :)

[trungleduc]

I updated the issue about the viewport config. The transform control merits its own toggle button on the toolbar

[martinRenou]

• Toggle object highlight mode: using a bounding box or using highlight color
• Highlight or bounding box color selector
• Viewport background color, it would be great if we could support gradient color

I'm thinking these should be using normal JupyterLab settings.

There may be a way to add a shortcut in the toolbar to go to the settings page for JupyterCAD?

• Toggle axes helper

I feel like this one should instead be stored on a per-file basis in StateDB like the other view states listed in #601

[trungleduc]

I'm thinking these should be using normal JupyterLab settings.

There may be a way to add a shortcut in the toolbar to go to the settings page for JupyterCAD?

If we put it into JupyterLab settings, having the shortcut is a must. I know lots of users do not know about the setting page of JupyterLab.

I feel like this one should instead be stored on a per-file basis in StateDB like the other view states listed in #601

just checked FreeCAD, it's at application level. I would follow them for these configs