Shelf Editor

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Tabs and controls

Shelves: Click the Shelves tab to display existing shelves. From here you can create, delete, and rename shelves and change their order.
Shelf Contents: Click the Shelf Contents tab to display the contents of a specific shelf. From here you can move and delete shelf items, change an item’s label and tooltip, as well as change its icon and icon name.
Edit Commands: Click the Edit Commands tab to view and edit the MEL code associated with a tool or action.
Label & Tooltips: Specify a brief description of the tool. This description appears with the icon in the icon or text modes, as well as in the tooltip (the pop-up description when the mouse hovers over the icon).
Icon Name: Type a label for the icon. This text appears on top of the icon to distinguish it from other items that use the same icon. Note that the icon name always appears on top of the icon, unlike the label, which you can specify to show or hide.
Change Image: Click this button to change the icon image.
Save All Shelves: Click Save All Shelves to save all changes immediately and write the information to the user shelves directory. The file name for a shelf file has the prefix shelf_.
Close: Click Close to accept your changes but not write them to the disk immediately. If your UI preference is to save shelf changes only when explicitly requested, the changes stay in effect only for the current session. Otherwise your changes are saved the next time you save a file or quit the application.

Options menu

Icon Only: Displays only the icon. This is the default.
Icon/Text Below: Displays the label below the icon.
Icon/Text Beside: Displays the label beside the icon.
Save Automatically: When this option is on, your changes to the shelves are saved when you exit Maya. This is the default.
Save Only on Request: When this option is on, your changes to the shelves are only saved when you select Save All Shelves in the Shelves window. If you don’t save your changes, then they are lost when you exit Maya.