# Segment Editor User Interface Improvements

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/segment-editor-user-interface-improvements/9029>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [November 5, 2019, 2:14pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/segment-editor-user-interface-improvements/9029 "2019-11-05T14:14:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 6, 2019, 4:36am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/segment-editor-user-interface-improvements/9029/12 "2019-11-06T04:36:30Z")

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> [@Umesh\_Persad](#):
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> How would you put the following effects into logical groupings based on usage?

Maybe something like this could work as a categorization:

Manual editing:

- Paint
- Draw
- Erase
- Level Tracing
- Scissors

Semi-automatic editing:

- Threshold
- Grow from seeds
- Fill between slices
- Watershed
- Fast Marching
- Flood Filling

Global editing:

- Margin
- Smoothing
- Logical operators

Modeling:

- Draw Tube
- Surface Cut

Volumes:

- Mask Volume
- Split Volume

How would you use these categories?

> [@Umesh\_Persad](#):
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> Another easy change with a drastic increase in usability (in my mind) would be to have the headers of subsections clearly delineated with a higher contrast background as the following example shows

That’s interesting and indeed it would be quite easy to implement (by adjusting the style sheet). Let’s see what other users/developers think.

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