Choose which workbeches load at start up [Feature Request]

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Re: Chose which workbeches load at start up [Feature Request]

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nice job! I would center the check-boxes within their column and omit the question mark in the header
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chennes wrote: Fri Aug 06, 2021 10:44 pm Going back to the workaround for a moment
Excellent !!! I'm wondering if "Autoload" is clear enough : what do you think about "Load at start-up" ?
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Zolko wrote: Sat Aug 07, 2021 11:17 am Excellent !!! I'm wondering if "Autoload" is clear enough : what do you think about "Load at start-up" ?
I had the same thought -- I agree that's clearer, but it's also longer. Maybe if I let the label wrap to two lines? I haven't tried it, I don't know what that will look like.
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Re: Chose which workbeches load at start up [Feature Request]

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or just explain in a tooltip for the checkboxes if that's not too complex
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I think most people would be confused only once, if that much.

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OK, here's another draft, incorporating those suggestions:
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For completeness, here's the interface I submitted in that PR:
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I left the old (circa 2004) autoload preference alone (see the Start workbench in the interface above), and just disabled the checkbox for that item, with a tooltip that tries to explain the situation:
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Re: Chose which workbeches load at start up [Feature Request]

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chennes wrote: Sun Aug 08, 2021 6:04 pm PR 4957
kkremitzki wrote: Sat Aug 07, 2021 3:51 pm <wmayer> There are others who have the capacity to merge those changes, for example, ...
kkremitzki wrote: Sun Aug 08, 2021 12:10 am <wmayer> Last forum visit for him was back on July 27th, a little more than a week ago, for what it's worth...
so .... following through on all this, do you have the technical (administrative) possibility to merge this PR ? Would you - please - be willing to take the responsibility to do it ?
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Zolko wrote: Mon Aug 09, 2021 10:21 pm do you have the technical (administrative) possibility to merge this PR ?
I hope you are asking @kkremitzki -- I certainly don't! That said, I'm sure it would help if a couple of people reviewed the PR on GitHub. I'd love a few testers to build it and make sure it works properly, especially on Linux and Mac.
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