<div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hi all, accidentally sent first mail too soon. Here is complete meeting minutes.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Here are the notes from today's first Blender UI meeting in <a href="http://irc.freenode.net/" target="_blank">irc.freenode.net</a>, #blendercoders</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">1) Current Projects:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Patch for Custom Icons in add-ons is in development. Has a few issues, such as no relative path support, but is nearing ready for review: <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica"><a href="https://developer.blender.org/D645" target="_blank">https://developer.blender.org/D645</a></span></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica">- User Preferences and Properties editor tabs are nearly done. Agreement was reached on User Preferences tabs being good to go, pending final usability and code reviews from Jonathan Williamson, Pablo Vasquez, and Campbell Barton. </span></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica">Properties editor tabs need more work and may need to wait on a tab design update. They take too much space currently and do not improve the usability much beyond the visual communication. </span></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="https://developer.blender.org/D667" target="_blank">https://developer.blender.org/D667</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica"><br>
</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica">- Layout tabs offer good usability but takes up too much space. Should probably wait on a larger overhaul of the top bar.</span></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica"><a href="https://developer.blender.org/T39835" target="_blank">https://developer.blender.org/T39835</a></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica"><br>
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</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica">2) Design Tasks: </span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica"><br>
</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica">- Modifiers UI, agreement was reached to implement drag and drop for re-ordering modifiers. Other issues can wait until after drag and drop. Drag and drop should also be added to constraints at same time. </span></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica"><a href="https://developer.blender.org/T38178">https://developer.blender.org/T38178</a></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica"><br>
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</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica">3) Other topics</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>- Pablo Vasquez is working on an updated UI Widget design, based loosely around William Reynish's original designs. He will present in coming weeks: <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px"><a href="https://developer.blender.org/T38037">https://developer.blender.org/T38037</a></span></div>
<div><br></div><div>- <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:13px">mib2berlin has list of small UI issues to talk on more next meeting: </span><a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User_talk:Scorpion">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User_talk:Scorpion</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>- Toolbar tabs need fix for short editors compressing them too much. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div>4) Next Meeting<div>The UI meeting is planned for every other week. Next meeting will be August 17th.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr">Jonathan Williamson<div><a href="http://cgcookie.com" target="_blank">http://cgcookie.com</a></div></div></div>
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