Buttons to make open/close toolbar easier/faster?

No.

If you want to do that, one way is to create a toolbar instead of a menu, then have a button which toggles the toolbar on and off (e.g. on the left of the window). Then you click that button to see the toolbar, click as many things on the toolbar as you like, then close the toolbar again.

My Diff/Merge Toolbar is an example of that.