Save toolbar and screen configurations and locations

Re-thinking the way toolbars work in ICM would be very welcome (and it has my vote) although I am of the opinion that this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to peculiarities of the GUI. Albeit the toolbars are a great place to start.

I feel that it may be constructive to skin the app based around particular workflows rather than having it as a big sandbox like (say) GIS platforms typically operate (which seems to me what ICM is currently emulating). Browsing through the forums briefly, I can see rather a lot of posts that ultimately tie back to UI/UX related matters. Perhaps instead of approaching them all individually, it might be beneficial to look at (say) the entire model-build process and determine how that workflow could be made more efficient. Try to hit several birds with one process-chart?

This relates back to what the original user is asking for as we could (for example) load a whole skin/workflow-template that omitted/included particular icons/toolbars depending on what one wants to do on that day (e.g. model build, model review, 2d analysis, verification, etc). If possible, the skins could then be optimised for some common screen sizes and resolutions. User can opt-in/out icons depending on preference and re-save it as custom if desired.

Perhaps that's getting too out of the box or should be its own topic? but I think its worth considering this matter from the bottom-up as well as the top-down. Would be interesting to hear from Innovyze what the constraints are around that as well as I don't develop GUI's myself, just use them. Cheers!

Please can this feature be looked at. As I often have to manually re-arrange toolbars to work with the software. I work with colleagues that have got so fed up they just leave the toolbars all stacked up to the left and work within the letterbox that's left for the network window.

Agree with Bradley: my toolbars get messed up simply if I 'Restore down' and then 'Maximise' the window! Have to restore the default and then customise all over again - this must be a bug?

Toolbar behavior is very fiddly even at the best of times. As a good example, set ICM to windowed mode and shrink the width to as small as possible, now all of the toolbars are stuck to the left hand side in multiple layers. Moving the width back to normal doesn't change anything and the toolbars need to be moved manually back into position. If the Toolbars are Customized to Lock Positions they'll still move when the window is resized and you'll need to unlock them to put them back into place. An option to export toolbar positions/visibility would let you load the layout you wanted if things were messed up. This would also allow you set different toolbar layouts depending on the required workflow or bring your layout with you when updating to a newer version.