Fully configurable toolbar

One of the many reasons I love Shotcut is its amazingly configurable interface. There’s one element, though, that isn’t fully configurable - the toolbar. Unless I’m really missing something (always possible!) the only options available are icon size + whether or not to show text under the icons.

On my “Editing” layout, many icons on the toolbar are redundant because their functions are already visible as tabs – so the ability to add/remove icons would be greatly appreciated. As for the six layout options provided, I’d really like to be able to select only the ones I actually use, and also to add any I create from scratch. (Highly personal + trivial niggle: I use “Editing” at least 90% of the time, and I suspect the same is true of most users, so why does “Logging” come first?)

Given that most of the programs I use have fully configurable toolbars, the lack of this feature does kind of stand out in Shotcut. I do appreciate that expanding/enhancing Shotcut’s functionality is more important than any cosmetic tweak. But I couldn’t find this issue on the Roadmap, or mentioned by anyone in Forum postings, so I thought, “Why not flag it up and see what happens?”

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Yes, I also would love the ability to edit the toolbar buttons. I’m a new Shotcut user and would like the ability to set it up for the way that I use it. For instance, I find myself using “Open Other” to add text captions to the timeline. I saw in a video using an earlier beta release that “Open Other” was a button included on the toolbar, but has since been removed.

I realize there are keyboard shortcuts that can be used instead, and that Shotcut is a free opensource program being maintained by volunteers. But I would still like to see this feature added at some point.

No, it was renamed and removed non generators such as devices. Moreover, new generator was added in 2 additional places! How can you overlook this when it is all over the place?! The changes were done specifically to assist new and seldom/casual users. Something named “Open Other” is not an obvious place to look for generators.