id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	blockedby	blocking	notify_on_close	platform	project
2471	Actions menu suggested text & organization	Elaine Meng	Eric Pettersen	"The Surface part would stay unchanged and is not mentioned.

Actions
 Atoms/Bonds
   Show
   Show Only
   Hide

   Show Sidechain/Base
   Backbone Only
   Chain Trace Only
   Cartoon
     Show
     Hide
     Rounded Edges
     Squared Edges
     Piped Edges [...or Welted, Flanged, or Lipped if you must, or omit]
     Tube Helices

   Atom Style
     Stick
     Ball & Stick
     Sphere
     Ring Fill
       Thick
       Thin
       None

   Nucleotide Style
     Ladder
     Stubs
     Slab Base, Ribose Tube
     Slab Base, Ribose Atoms
     Atoms (Filled Rings) [...or just one Atoms entry, see below]
     Atoms (No Ring Fill)

   Delete

Notes:
- wanted to make the division between display and style clearer to help people understand that if the atoms are hidden, choosing sticks, ladder, etc. won’t show anything at all; important enough to add rollover (Style submenu)

- prefer ""sidechain"" to ""side chain"" (which makes the virgule ambiguous… what's a ""side base?”)

- really need ""cartoon show"" so one can toggle without having to change existing style(s) or remember what they were (e.g. default has squared-edge strands, rounded-edge coil/helix) or recalculate helix tubes

- cartoon and ribbon are mostly synonymous, no need to repeat

- much prefer ""stubs"" to ""broken rungs""; stubs already used in preset name and seems clear/descriptive to me ...but if you really really hate stubs, shouldn't I change preset name too??  don't need 50 terms for the same thing buzzing around in people's heads

- could have only one Atoms entry in Nucleotide Style  because there are already choices to fill/unfill rings.  If one really wants to fill nuc rings and not other rings, can select nucleic acid first.

- I don't like ""lipped"" so I gave some alternatives, if we even include that choice in the menu. Pymol calls them “fancy”:
 Fancy mode helices are ribbons with tubular edges à la MolScript.
(but don’t want to use “tubular” due to possible confusion with tube helices)
All I can find in the MolScript docs: 
 In the Raster3D output mode, the helix has a thickness and a rounded edge controlled by the helixthickness parameter.
(but I think “Rounded Edge” is a better description for the oval xsection.  No wonder Pymol called them something else)

- there are so many cartoon styles more likely to be used than the piped edges, like the licorice style in the presets, but I also think we don't want to go ""there"" in this actions menu unless there will be a full control of width and thickness (dialog where you can enter values a la Chimera's Cartoon Style Editor)"	enhancement	closed	major	1.0	UI		fixed						all	ChimeraX