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<DIV>Sebastian, why not a floating panel that you can move where you can drop
operators or properties?</DIV>
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<DIV>A floating panel would be great for getting a very clean viewport with all
area for working and only a small set of tools on screen. This could be very
useful for 2D animation and for other areas as sculpting.</DIV>
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<DIV>Cheers,</DIV>
<DIV>Antonio</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=sebastiankoenig@posteo.de>Sebastian König</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, November 16, 2016 5:39 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=Bf-interface@blender.org>Bf-interface@blender.org</A>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Bf-interface] UI Workshop topics</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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style='FONT-SIZE: small; TEXT-DECORATION: none; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri"; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline'>Hey
all!<BR><BR>Thought I'd share some of the topics that I would love to see
tackled in <BR>2.8 and in the upcoming UI workshop.<BR><BR>Since it's supposed
to be the "workflow" release I think one of the most <BR>important things is a
super easy customizability together with some <BR>solid presets (probably not
the best word for it though).<BR>One idea I really like is to have an additional
area in the editors <BR>where we can drag panels, settings, buttons, macros etc.
Because I do <BR>think it is good to have the toolshelf and properties following
a <BR>logical and semanic order, so that it is easy to find the stuff you need
<BR>for the task if you have to search for it. E.g. the AO toggle in the
<BR>Display panel. However, I don't want to have all the panels open all the
<BR>time, or having to open and close panels for that one setting that I
<BR>frequently use. Instead I would want to be able to simply drag the tools
<BR>to my own custom panel/area/pie in order to have the stuff I really
<BR>often use quickly accessible. Currently I think of it as a third,
<BR>horizontal toolshelf. This toolshelf could also have tabs, where we
<BR>could configure several tools, settings, buttons configurations, ideally
<BR>categorized for different workflows. Maybe there could even be
<BR>pre-configured tool-sets?<BR><BR>Speaking of pre-configured toolsets:<BR>I
think Blender's current keymap might be overloaded, but at the same <BR>time it
is for the most part remarkably well laid out and thought <BR>through. The way
it uses alt, shift, ctrl together with hotkeys based on <BR>the toolname (E for
extrude) makes it easy to discover new hotkeys by <BR>pure logic, which I think
makes it easy to learn and pleasant to use <BR>(for the most part ;). I know
that there will be a new keymap, which is <BR>supposedly stripped down to the
bare minimum. I would say let's not <BR>strip it down too much and keep the key
inner logic of it! Because <BR>coming up with such a system that works in so
many editors is probably <BR>not that easy and is a task the user should not
have to do himself; a <BR>good designed core keymap can be a great help for the
user to learn the <BR>software quickly and efficient.<BR><BR>I think pie menues
could play a key role improving workflows. Users <BR>should be able to easily
create and configure their own pies. But more <BR>importantly I would like to
see some core workflow related pies, that <BR>are not just a menu re-arranged as
a pie as in many of the "official" <BR>pie menues in recent Blender releases,
but rather a set of operators and <BR>mini-scripts/macros, that will speed up
the most common tasks. I would <BR>love to discuss during the workshop how to
design such pies and how to <BR>incorporate them into different
workflows.<BR><BR>Anyway, I think it doesnt make much sense now to think about
that stuff <BR>in detail, but it illustrates my main wish for Blender's UI:
Better <BR>workflow related customizability and better accessibility of tools,
<BR>together with some well designed pre-configured
<BR>toolsets/workflows/presets or whatever one might call it.
:)<BR><BR><BR>Looking forward to the
workshop!<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR><BR><BR>Sebastian<BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Bf-interface
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