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

Kristen James Eberlein kris at eberleinconsulting.com
Wed Dec 18 05:57:31 CST 2019


Exactly! I really appreciate how thoughtful all of you on the oXygen 
development team are.

Best,
Kris

Kristen James Eberlein
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
www.eberleinconsulting.com
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On 12/18/2019 6:46 AM, Oxygen XML Editor Support (Radu Coravu) wrote:
> 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
>> +1 919 622-1501; kriseberlein (skype)
>>
>> 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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