[Bf-funboard] A thing that was better in 2.28

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

First of all it's work in progress. This is what I'm wrestling with:

- I want to have equal treatment for horizontal and vertical layouts.  
In the latter it should all fit in 250 pixels, something thats not  
solved yet. Exceptions for horizontal layouts are always possible later  
on.

- 'Context' switching has been moved to a more local level. This is  
important for having it configurable. What about having texture AND  
material in one window? What about allowing to move panels to other  
windows? I want to keep it open to experiment with it.

- In the old buttonswindow itself you could find much more of these  
sets of 'databrowse' buttons. For textures and images for example. So  
what's consistant here?
The other window types (Ipo, Sound) have the this databrowse in the  
header, since it locks the entire window context to that specific data.  
For the new buttons window system I had to drop that limitation.

- For a good transition process to a new UI, I made the situation  
resembling the old one still. That's just a start. Think out of the box  
what's all possible now.

- Flexibility will allow us a lot more, but sometimes there are  
negative side aspects. We just need creative thinking and smart  
solutions.

-Ton-




On Thursday, Oct 23, 2003, at 16:29 Europe/Amsterdam, Martin Poirier  
wrote:

> --- William Reynish <wreynish@yahoo.dk> wrote:
>> I think we should revert to the old way of doing
>> this.
>> It says in the UI doc that we should change the bad
>> aspects of the Blender UI and leave the good bits.
>> This, I think, used to be one of of the really good
>> and genious bits. It was logical, it was fast, and
>> it
>> consistent throughout the application (it looked
>> similar in the world buttons, texture buttons, edit
>> buttons and so on..)
>>
>> What is your oppinion?
>
> I agree, the placement in 2.3 is more confusing and a
> lot slower than in 2.28, especially since the data
> buttons isn't always at the same place depending on
> the window.
>
> Martin
>
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