[Bf-funboard] Toolbox design

[Luke Wenke]

At the moment, if you're maximized, you can use ctrl-downarrow to stop it
being maximized. And if you're on a screen with no buttons window, you can
use ctrl-rightarrow. Then you can use F10 or click the display icon, then
click 16 and OSA if necessary. If someone is going to change the osa a lot,
they can just make sure they have the buttons there (or on a nearby screen),
ready to click.
If the spacebar menu just mainly had hotkey items (and also let you created
meshes, etc) this would be a quick way of accessing blender's
functionality... and you wouldn't even have to know how to spell the words.
And it would constantly be reminding you of the hotkey so that you could
avoid using the toolbox in the future. Your method doesn't teach people what
the hotkeys are so that they can avoid having to type out the name of
things.
It could have some speed advantages in some cases (e.g. the osa16 thing) but
I think there are quite a few problems with it. It means that every single
present function in blender would need to be added in, as well as every
future function...
I guess that feature (a little text field in the spacebar toolbox) wouldn't
affect how the toolbox menus work (by making the menus less accessible,
etc) - but perhaps the text field causes unnecessary clutter.... well if you
and others like that idea then it wouldn't be clutter as far as you're
concerned, but I doubt I'd find it very useful.
- Luke.

----- Original Message ----- 
> Changing OSA setting can involve bringing a buttons window to view (you
could
> a window maximized or be on a screen with no buttons window), clicking
display
> tab and finaly use the osa buttons. And in most cases you will have to
travel
> across a huge part of the screen. Compare to that the time it will take to
enter
> space,o,s,a,1,6,enter for soemone with just average typing skills.
>
> I think this is to be the fastest and most powerful way of accessing all
blender
> functionality that you don't use often enough to memorize a single letter
> shortcut, but that you know of with name.
>
>
> But I sure hope to hear more opinions about it.
>
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> Thorsten
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