Tool Bar Buttons?

[berto]

[echoing a post at the Matrix Forum:]

It's time to begin work on the Tool Bar revamp.

We want to add some things, remove some things, and probably make the buttons smaller so that we can fit more of them into that limited space.

Here are the current Tool Bar functions:

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ON_MOVEMODE

ON_ARTDIALOG
ON_LOAD
ON_DIGGINGIN
ON_DOUBLETIME
ON_BUYBULLET
ON_BUYWHEEL
ON_RESOLVE
ON_AIRATTACK
ON_ACTIVATE_AI

ON_ZOOMIN
ON_DISPLAYBASES
ON_DISPLAYJUMP
ON_DISPLAYVISIBLE
ON_HIGHLIGHTORG
ON_NEXTSTACK
ON_HIGHLIGHTHQ
ON_DISPLAYRANGE
ON_ARRIVED
ON_REMOVE
ON_DISPLAYMOVABLE

ON_TURNNEXT

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• What would you like to see added to the Tool Bar?
  

An obvious choice, I think, would be buttons for firing starshells and smoke (the key combinations for those functions being so convoluted and obscure that they are too easy to forget).

Remember: Many game functions are (a) available in the game Menu and (b) hotkeyed (many newly so). This mitigates against adding to the Tool Bar some of the more obscure and infrequently used game functions.

• If we were to remove some of the Tool Bar buttons (in order to save space, make room for worthier additions), which might those be?
  

Again, remember: All of the current Tool Bar buttons have game Menu and hot key equivalents. So removing some of the more obscure and infrequently used buttons would be a small loss.

Especially if we shrink the Tool Bar buttons, we are likely to redo most or all of the current button icons. (A simple AI instead of the current computer icon, for instance.)

Your thoughts?