Sorry, as you can see, I figured that out after I asked you the question.

If I set <Standard hideAll="no">, but then manually set <Button hide="yes" for all the standard buttons, and then set hide=yes for particular buttons, I can get it to hide all of the standard buttons and select of the plugin buttons. You can use that to implement what you want.

So @donho, the <Plugin ...> section bug only shows up if <Standard hideAll="yes"> ; if you manually hide each individual Standard button, the <Plugin ...> section settings work correctly. Hopefully, that will help find the logic bug.

When standard ist set to hideAll, nothing can be hidden in the plugin-section.

Further, if I have both at “no”, but the first few individual plugin buttons hidden (so with ComparePlugin, hiding the FIRST, COMPARE, and CLEAR COMPARE buttons), it works as expected:

… but if I hide ALL the standard, and just those specific for the plugin, it still shows all the plugin buttons:

In other words, if standard is set to hide all, it completely ignores the hiding settings for plugin buttons, as far as I can tell.

Would you like an Issue created for this bug in toolbarButtonsConf handling? => created issue #16280

plugins. These are always shown, when <Standard hideAll=“yes”>

Okay, it took me a while to figure out what you meant: if you have ComparePlugin v2.0.2 installed, and have both <Standard hideAll="yes"> and <Plugin hideAll="yes">, then it still shows the plugin buttons. I can confirm that.

When I have <Standard hideAll="no"> and <Plugin hideAll="yes">, then I get what I expect, where it shows the standard buttons but not the plugin buttons.

And if I have <Standard hideAll="yes"> and <Plugin hideAll="no">, then I get what I expect, where it shows the plugin buttons but not the standard buttons.

(And obviously, if I have both at no, I see all the buttons)

@donho, it looks like the new feature has a bug when both <Standard hideAll="yes"> and <Plugin hideAll="yes">

But @sevem47 , I have a question: what are you trying to accomplish by hiding all the buttons of both standard and plugin? If you don’t want any buttons, then just turn off the toolbar with Settings > Preferences > Toolbar > Hide: that way, you don’t have the wasted screen space of an empty button bar.

Even if I set <Plugin hideAll=“yes”> all of the buttons of the plugin are still visible.

I think this new functionality does not work correctly

hideAll="yes" works for me:

And here’s an example with hideAll="no", but three of the first group of seven buttons, the three buttons are individually hidden, so only four appear:

Notepad++ v8.7.8   (64-bit)
Build time : Mar  7 2025 - 20:39:25
Path : C:\usr\local\apps\npp\npp.8.7.8.portable.x64\notepad++.exe
Command Line : 
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : ON
Cloud Config : OFF
Periodic Backup : ON
Placeholders : OFF
Scintilla Rendering Mode : SC_TECHNOLOGY_DIRECTWRITEDC (3)
Multi-instance Mode : monoInst
File Status Auto-Detection : cdEnabledNew (for current file/tab only)
Dark Mode : OFF
OS Name : Windows 11 Home (64-bit)
OS Version : 24H2
OS Build : 26100.3476
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins : 
    mimeTools (3.1)
    NppConverter (4.6)
    NppExport (0.4)
    PythonScript (2.1)

it behaves exactly as I’d expect.

Things you should check:

• The example file is called toolbarButtonsConf_example.xml, but you have to copy that to toolbarButtonsConf.xml for Notepad++ to see it; editing the _example will not make changes to Notepad++'s toolbar buttons

• You have a portable Notepad++, so toolbarButtonsConf.xml needs to be in the same directory as notepad++.exe (ie, C:\Users\CurrUser\Documents\temp\npp.8.7.8.portable\toolbarButtonsConf.xml)

• Notepad++ only reads toolbarButtonsConf.xml when it first starts: if you edit toolbarButtonsConf.xml in Notepad++ itself, then you have to save it, exit Notepad++, and re-run the application.

Useful Reference:

• User Manual entry: https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/config-files/#toolbar-icon-visibility-toolbarbuttonsconfxml

I think this new functionality does not work correctly. If I set <Standard hideAll=“yes”> in the example config file, all buttons of plugins are always displayed, independent of the different setting.

I observed this behaviour with the following configuration and the provided file toolbarButtonsConf_example.xml

Notepad++ v8.7.8 (32-bit)
Build time : Mar 7 2025 - 20:37:43
Path : C:\Users\CurrUser\Documents\temp\npp.8.7.8.portable\notepad++.exe
Command Line :
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : ON
Cloud Config : OFF
Periodic Backup : ON
Placeholders : OFF
Scintilla Rendering Mode : SC_TECHNOLOGY_DIRECTWRITE (1)
Multi-instance Mode : monoInst
File Status Auto-Detection : cdEnabledNew (for current file/tab only)
Dark Mode : OFF
OS Name : Windows 11 Enterprise (64-bit)
OS Version : 24H2
OS Build : 26100.3476
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins :
ComparePlugin (2.0.2)
mimeTools (3.1)
NppConverter (4.6)
NppExport (0.4)