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Remove "Toggle Developer Tools" from application menu #650

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per1234 opened this issue Dec 1, 2021 · 1 comment · Fixed by #882
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Remove "Toggle Developer Tools" from application menu #650

per1234 opened this issue Dec 1, 2021 · 1 comment · Fixed by #882
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per1234 commented Dec 1, 2021

Describe the current behavior

The "Help" menu contains an item "Toggle Developer Tools". In this case, "developer" is referring to the developer of the IDE itself. Those using the IDE to develop Arduino sketches will not find this to be useful in any way, so it only adds unnecessary complexity to the primary UI of the IDE.

I have observed the "developer tools" used for troubleshooting a user issue only a few times in the years of this project. In these situations, someone with advanced knowledge about the IDE is already assisting the user, and could just as easily provide instructions to the user for accessing the tools via a secondary UI along with the instructions for using the tools.

To Reproduce

  1. Select Help > Toggle Developer Tools from the Arduino IDE menus.

Note that a very complex interface is presented which does not offer anything of interest or value to the target user.

Describe request

Remove "Toggle Developer Tools" from the "Help" menu.

It will remain accessible via the command palette.

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  • OS: Windows 10
  • Version: 2.0.0-rc1-snapshot.f0d9894
    Date: 2021-11-30T16:25:41.414Z
    CLI Version: 0.20.1 [abb21449]
@per1234 per1234 added type: enhancement Proposed improvement topic: code Related to content of the project itself labels Dec 1, 2021
@ubidefeo ubidefeo added criticality: high Of high impact priority: high Resolution is a high priority labels Dec 28, 2021
@ubidefeo ubidefeo assigned AlbyIanna and unassigned 91volt Dec 28, 2021
@fstasi fstasi added this to the arduino-ide rc5 milestone Jan 25, 2022
@ubidefeo ubidefeo changed the title Remove "Toggle Developer Tools" from primary UI Remove "Toggle Developer Tools" from application menu Feb 17, 2022
@per1234 per1234 linked a pull request Mar 8, 2022 that will close this issue
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per1234 commented Mar 8, 2022

Closing as resolved by #882

Thanks Alberto!

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