<div dir="ltr"><div>Regarding the name for the part of the screen in which an editor lives - I think the correct term is actually "Area": right click the border of an editor and see "Area Options >Split Area/Join Area"; see the tooltip for the button to switch areas "Current editor type for this area: 3D View". Also the python access is 'bpy.context.screen.areas[x]' where 'x' is the index for an area (e.g. for default screen layout, index of 5 is the 3D View).<br><br></div>As for your proposed structure and moving/deleting things, looks good to me! Only thing that bugs me is that Scenes are a pretty fundamental aspect of blender and maybe shouldn't be hidden inside the interface section, though I'm not sure what a better place could be.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 January 2015 at 12:16, Gaia <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gaia.clary@machinimatrix.org" target="_blank">gaia.clary@machinimatrix.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi;<br>
<br>
I have been looking into the chapter<br>
<br>
Getting Started - Basics - Interface<br>
<br>
This chapter contains a lot of information which<br>
i believe is not exactly about the Interface but more<br>
about how to use some parts of Blender.<br>
<br>
Based on the assumption that this chapter should<br>
be about how the interface works in general<br>
i propose to cut down the current structure and move<br>
some documents to other places (or even delete some).<br>
<br>
Besides that i would like to know how to name<br>
the part of the screen in which an Editor lives.<br>
In the docs i find all of this:<br>
<br>
"Editor", "Window", "Window Frame", "Frame"<br>
<br>
It is not even clear to me if this means the same<br>
thing in the documents or slightly different things.<br>
<br>
I have chosen "Frame" as a placeholder<br>
for now:<br>
<br>
definition: Frame is a rectangular area on the<br>
Blender window which hosts an Editor.<br>
<br>
###############################################<br>
Proposed structure for the Interface chapter<br>
###############################################<br>
<br>
# Interface<br>
- Elements<br>
. principles (done)<br>
. Screen elements (done)<br>
. Screen Layouts<br>
. Editors (done)<br>
. Sidebars (done)<br>
. Header (done)<br>
. Main region (done)<br>
. Headers<br>
- hide/show<br>
- collapse/expand Header menus<br>
- navigate<br>
. Panels (done)<br>
. Tabs (done)<br>
. Pinning (done)<br>
. Data Input<br>
- Sliders<br>
- alphanumeric input<br>
Expressions<br>
Units<br>
- Color Pickers (not sure)<br>
- Eye Dropper (not sure)<br>
- Color Ramps (not sure)<br>
- Curve Widget(not sure)<br>
<br>
- Input Devices<br>
. Supported devices<br>
. Recommended configuration<br>
<br>
- Blender Frame System<br>
. Frames<br>
. Arranging Frames<br>
. Maximizing a Frame<br>
. Splitting Frames<br>
. Joining Frames<br>
. Change Frame Size<br>
. Swap frames<br>
. Open Frame in new Window<br>
<br>
- Special Windows<br>
. The Blender Console<br>
-Windows Console<br>
- Linux Console<br>
-Mac OS Console<br>
. Operator Search (not sure)<br>
. User Preferences (not sure)<br>
<br>
- Screen Layouts<br>
. The Start Screen Layout<br>
. Customizing the Start Screen Layout<br>
. Predefined Screen Layouts<br>
. Adding a new Screen Layout<br>
. Deleting a Screen Layout<br>
<br>
- Scenes<br>
. Add a new Scene<br>
. Delete a Scene<br>
<br>
############################<br>
Propose to move or delete<br>
############################<br>
<br>
I propose to move the following parts out of the Interface section:<br>
<br>
- The Window System is mostly a brief description<br>
of the 3D View and the Properties editor<br>
<br>
- From Input Devices:<br>
- Conventions -> Conventions document)<br>
- Mouse Button emulation ->Customization<br>
- NumPad Emulation -> Customization<br>
- non english Keyboard -> Internationalisation<br>
<br>
- From the Console Window:<br>
- Common Messages(delete)<br>
<br>
- Window Types (delete, done already)<br>
<br>
- From Screens:<br>
- Additional Layouts (delete)<br>
<br>
- From Scenes:<br>
- A brief Example (delete or move to a "working with scenes" document)<br>
<br>
- Modes (move editors/3DView)<br>
- Contexts (move to editors/Properties)<br>
- Buttons and controls (mostly delete)<br>
- i have added parts of this to the Data Input section (see above)<br>
- Common Shortcuts (move to conventions document?)<br>
<br>
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