[oXygen-user] oXygen 21.x running on Windows: Is there a way to make icons smaller?

Oxygen XML Editor Support (Radu Coravu) support at oxygenxml.com
Wed Dec 18 05:46:52 CST 2019


Hi Kris,

Right, if we manage to implement it I will also find such a feature 
useful when using Oxygen with a low resolution projector to present 
pieces of XML or XSLT content to the audience because the action would 
free available screen space.

Regards,
Radu

Radu Coravu
<oXygen/> XML Editor
http://www.oxygenxml.com

On 12/18/2019 1:44 AM, Kristen James Eberlein wrote:
> Hi, Radu.
> 
> I think a "Hide toolbars" action would be very helpful.
> 
> Best,
> Kris
> 
> Kristen James Eberlein
> Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
> Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
> www.eberleinconsulting.com
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> 
> On 12/17/2019 2:50 AM, Radu Coravu wrote:
>> Hi Kristen,
>>
>> Somehow for this use case in which you have a small screen area and 
>> the toolbars get in the way I had this idea of adding a new action 
>> called "Hide toolbars" to the Oxygen "Window" menu.
>> There is already an action there called "Maximize editing area" which 
>> hides the side views so maybe these two actions would go well together.
>>
>> Both actions (the one which hides side views and the one which hides 
>> the toolbars) would be toggle actions and you could assign keyboard 
>> shortcuts to them so that when you want to maximize the editing area 
>> you could hide both the side views and the toolbars.
>> The main menu has most actions inside it anyway and the content 
>> completion window makes the Author toolbar redundant in a way. Also 
>> the regular shortcuts for saving, opening files would still work.
>>
>> So maybe people could increase the editing area and edit distraction 
>> free and by hiding toolbars and side views.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Radu
>>
>> Radu Coravu
>> <oXygen/> XML Editor
>> http://www.oxygenxml.com
>>
>> On 12/16/2019 7:44 PM, Kristen James Eberlein wrote:
>>> Thank, George. I know (and appreciate!) that the tool bars are 
>>> configurable. I've (temporarily, I hope) removed all of them to get 
>>> more room to work. But it is less than optimal, and I would not want 
>>> to screen share with any clients while oXygen is configured like this.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Kris
>>>
>>> Kristen James Eberlein
>>> Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
>>> Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
>>> www.eberleinconsulting.com
>>> +1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype)
>>>
>>> On 12/16/2019 8:51 AM, George Bina wrote:
>>>> Hi Kristen,
>>>>
>>>> I guess one of my colleagues will respond with more details 
>>>> regarding the icons size, it may be an issue with the HiDPI 
>>>> detecttion and we have support to manually control that:
>>>> https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/21.1/ug-editor/topics/custom-system-properties.html?hl=hidpi#custom-system-properties__hidpi-scaling 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> However, the toolbars are fully configurable, you can remove or 
>>>> arrange the toolbar as you want:
>>>> https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/21.1/ug-editor/topics/configure-toolbars-x-editing2.html 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>> George
>>>> -- 
>>>> George Cristian Bina
>>>> <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
>>>> http://www.oxygenxml.com
>>>>
>>>> On 12/14/19 2:06 PM, Kristen James Eberlein wrote:
>>>>> I'd like to move to oXygen 21.x, but I'm being blocked by the size 
>>>>> of the icons. In the screen capture below, you can see how little 
>>>>> room I have for editing ...
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there an option to use smaller icons? Did I do something wrong 
>>>>> in the installation?
>>>>>
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Kris
>>>>>
>>>>> Kristen James Eberlein
>>>>> Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
>>>>> Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
>>>>> www.eberleinconsulting.com
>>>>> +1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype)
>>>>>
>>>>>
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