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Allow hiding tab buttons in sidebars

Waqar Ahmed requested to merge work/hidetoolbar into master

Sometimes when you enable a plugin you don't want its whole toolview to be around all the time, snippets for e.g., is such a plugin whose toolview is a rarely used thing for me. However, the toolview and its respective button in the sidebar is always there increasing clutter.

This change introduces a feature which allows a user to hide whatever buttons they want. This allows kate to be even more minimal.

I haven't coupled "tool view showing" with the "button show/hide" as both can be used independent of each other. For e.g., you can hide the "Documents" button in the sidebar but still use a shortcut to see the toolview. This will allow people to even completely hide the sidebars and still be able to use all the plugin features and toolviews on demand

One more thing that can be done as a follow up is to create actions that hide a sidebar completely.

There are two ways to hide a button in the sidebar

  • From Menubar -> View -> Sidebar Button -> show xyz button
  • Right click on button and click "Hide"
Edited by Waqar Ahmed

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