# Toolbar Widget **URL:** \ **Category:** CesiumJS\ **Created:** [January 28, 2013, 6:38pm UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/toolbar-widget/246 "2013-01-28T18:38:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![patrick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/cesium/user_avatar/community.cesium.com/patrick/32/2045_2.png) [@patrick](https://community.cesium.com/u/patrick)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 6:38pm UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/toolbar-widget/246/1 "2013-01-28T18:38:18Z")
I’m glad to see that we are [replacing the toolbar](https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/cesium/wiki/Cesium-standard-actions) in the upper-right corner. We’ve received some less-than-positive feedback on the design of the current one. I’d like to see us consider its design along with the [navigation widget](https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/cesium/issues/450). For example, do bounding-box zoom and default view belong on the navigation widget? We should also very carefully decide what is visible by default, which of-course will vary from app to app. Our current toolbar takes up too much screen real estate. For example, see it on the front page of the [website](http://cesium.agi.com/). For the general viewer, a task needs to be common enough to justify its space, e.g., something like switching projections is probably not common enough, but going full-screen is. We should strive to keep things beautiful and simple like, for example, [Google Maps](https://maps.google.com/). Regards, Patrick ---
**Author:** ![Matt\_Amato](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/cesium/user_avatar/community.cesium.com/matt_amato/32/1993_2.png) [@Matt\_Amato](https://community.cesium.com/u/Matt_Amato)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/toolbar-widget/246/2 "2013-01-28T18:57:18Z")
That page is very much a work in progress, which is why I hadn’t emailed out to cesium-dev yet, but we’re open for feedback or thoughts if people have it. One thing we want to avoid is re-inventing the wheel of other UI toolkits out there. So rather than get to astronaut-like in our designs, I think we’re just going to implement a first pass at a “standard” tool bar and use that as a kick-off point for further discussion. Full-screen will definitely be moved to the lower-right corner, just like video players have. so that’s less space right there. As far as whether projections are important or not, I was thinking of rolling that into the “Stored views” scene-mode drop down, so you choose “2D Mercator” instead of just 2D, that would clean up real estate and still expose the functionality. I think Various mouse modes could also be a single drop-down, since one mode will only be active at a time. The above ideas leave us with just 3 buttons on the main toolbar, 1. Stored views, 2. Scene modes, 3. Mouse modes. That should make the toolbar 50% smaller than it is currently. ---
**Author:** ![patrick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/cesium/user_avatar/community.cesium.com/patrick/32/2045_2.png) [@patrick](https://community.cesium.com/u/patrick)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 7:05pm UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/toolbar-widget/246/3 "2013-01-28T19:05:00Z")
> Full-screen will definitely be moved to the lower-right corner, just like video players have. so that’s less space right there. +1 Did you see the navigation widget comments? All I see is putting mouse modes as a drop-down, which does not address having navigation control in two different parts of the UI. Patrick ---
**Author:** ![Matt\_Amato](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/cesium/user_avatar/community.cesium.com/matt_amato/32/1993_2.png) [@Matt\_Amato](https://community.cesium.com/u/Matt_Amato)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 7:11pm UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/toolbar-widget/246/4 "2013-01-28T19:11:57Z")
Sorry, I saw them but didn’t respond. I think bounding box zoom type functionality doesn’t really belong on the Navigation Widget. But that’s just my opinion. That being said, if we design them both properly from a visual standpoint, the main toolbar and navigation widget should flow together nicely when laid out in the Viewer, so ultimately it may be a moot point. ---
**Author:** ![Victor\_Berchet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/13edae/32.png) [@Victor\_Berchet](https://community.cesium.com/u/Victor_Berchet)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 11:53pm UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/toolbar-widget/246/5 "2013-01-28T23:53:52Z")
Mat, I do have some experience with dropdown boxes in a map UI (The users of my app were able to select a GEarth based 3D view in a dd box) - I would say that only 5% of the users have ever clicked on it, based on the feedback I get when I convert this to a toolbar button. I don’t say that this is a problem, only something to keep in mind when designing a UI. Introducing analytics could help determine user behavior but I don’t think people using Cesium currently could be considered as “standard” users - unless may be when talking about the Santa traker. Cheers, Victor