# UI Widget Overhaul

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/ui-widget-overhaul/10120
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** proposal
**Created:** [August 8, 2022, 4:08pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/ui-widget-overhaul/10120 "2022-08-08T16:08:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Jonas.Lukasczyk](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/jonas.lukasczyk/32/5839_2.png) [@Jonas.Lukasczyk](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Jonas.Lukasczyk)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2022, 2:45pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/ui-widget-overhaul/10120/21 "2022-09-02T14:45:00Z")

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I totally agree. I only played around with the idea of toggle buttons to see if this is something useful. Btw toggle buttons are only 6 lines of code so we can drop them immediately xD.

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### Author: ![cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/cory.quammen/32/11193_2.png) [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2022, 2:47pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/ui-widget-overhaul/10120/22 "2022-09-02T14:47:42Z")

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-1 on the buttons-for-checkboxes. Too easy to confuse with other buttons that are not togglable.

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### Author: ![phismith](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a9adbd/32.png) [@phismith](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/phismith)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2022, 2:52pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/ui-widget-overhaul/10120/23 "2022-09-02T14:52:13Z")

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Toggle buttons are great and will reduce the space needed if they are icons with tool tip text, but I think we should stick with checkboxes for now , because then they are self explanatory. I also agree with what Cory said.

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2022, 2:51am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/ui-widget-overhaul/10120/24 "2022-09-05T02:51:24Z")

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> I’m also not sure about @mwestphal comment about the precision of the numbers.

Look at this behavior of ParaView

![Peek 2022-09-02 18-23](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/6/68f2fe15a4b68722799237302411b8542db5d6c9.gif)

As you can see, the precision of the line wdiget changed when focus is applied to it.

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