In the viewport the tool region has 3 collapse/expansion levels:
For the Spreadsheet editor it would be nice to have two collapse levels:
Also, when changing that, it would be nice to make the default width of the region thinner.
This task is probably related, in that it would make these changes easier to implement: T92965
There was some discussion in the chat about icons here:
I have always not understood this love of shoving icons everywhere and always, without any need, creating unnecessary visual noise, distracting and interfering with just reading the text, giving a frivolous, unprofessional look. Well, and, creating the need for additional work on drawing non-important icons. And the more items there are in this list, the more it will turn into mess.
Your screenshot with just bullets instead of icons definitely looks cleaner and a lot easier to "parse" visually. It's a good idea.
I agree. We quite often stick icons everywhere just because we have them. I find they muddy things up if not used sparingly.
Agreed, the icons don't add much other than visual noise here. If somebody wants to think about a guideline on this for the HIG, be my guest.
They will be essential when we add a view-mode that doesn't draw the text.
Uff, are you sure we want to do that? It's a bit random, we don't use it for other navigation regions. Plus, this is a single region with icons in a bunch of different styles.
Our icon process feels completely broken, no one has responsibility for it.
That's the case unfortunately. Even more reason to avoid overusing icons.