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

[Kristen James Eberlein]

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
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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
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> 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
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>>>
>>> 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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