Thanks. All I am looking for is a way to expand those three icons to appear on the toolbar itself instead of requiring a dropdown menu that eats up another click.

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or at least the first button which is most frequently used

I am sure a simple tweak to JS/CSS or a setting that can be toggled on and off should allow this usability feature.

Please add this to the UI feature requests.