maoschanz / maoschanz/drawing

Impossible to unhide menus after hiding them

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enhancement
Dominant language
Python
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Description

## Use case

Hiding menus is too dangerous. Nobody remember you can unhide them with CTRL+F2 keys (in Nemo, it's ALT key, etc.). A lot of people hide them by mistake and don't know how to unhide them. Users are lost after hiding menus.

## Suggested solution

Adding a right-click menu + checkbox to unhide menus, like with Firefox.

### Possible alternatives

- Removing hiding of menus.
- Hiding menus shouldn't be so easy to do.
- Unhiding them should be done with the same mechanism than hiding them. By example, by clicking on an icon that remains after hiding menus, or something else.

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Research direction

No source file, test, or entry point is named. First reproduce hiding and attempting to restore menus, then locate the menu visibility handling and determine how a right-click menu or checkbox should expose the existing unhide action; done means users can reliably restore hidden menus without the keyboard shortcut.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
42/100

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