<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The inconsistencies in the mockups are not deliberate! <div><br></div><div>Regarding labels, I agree it should be as automated as possible. Problem is that many items will likely have their names truncated in the Properties, for example </div><div><br></div><div><b>Location X</b></div><div><b>Location Y</b></div><div><b>Location Z</b></div><div><br></div><div>in the RNA become </div><div><br></div><div>Location:</div><div><b>X</b></div><div><b>Y</b></div><div><b>Z</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>In the Properties.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't really know how to handle this. Also for things like:</div><div><br></div><div>Show:</div><div><b>Wireframe</b></div><div><b>Boundbox</b></div><div><b>TexSpace</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>etc</div><div><br></div><div>-W</div><div><br><div><div>On 13 Mar, 2009, at 4:39 PM, Ton Roosendaal wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi William,<br><br><a href="http://wiki.blender.org/uploads/8/88/2_5_mockups_01.png">http://wiki.blender.org/uploads/8/88/2_5_mockups_01.png</a><br><br>For nice aligned layouts it would work better to more strictly separate <br>button values (numbers, menu options, settings) from their labels. This <br>would also make buttons a bit smaller, and solve readability for <br>sliders. Text color for labels then can also be consistant. <br>Translations get more space too.<br><br>In your mockup some buttons have labels next to it, others don't. The <br>location of such labels is also something the layout engine could take <br>care of (and even can retrieve from RNA). We have to prevent inserting <br>our own label texts in the python UI scripts, that will make <br>translation quite a problem.<br><br>Compare this for example:<br>http://www.halfmanhalfmac.co.uk/modo_image/Tool%20properties%20panel.png<br><br>They do this quite consistantly, only tool buttons get their entire <br>text inside, which makes sense.<br><br>-Ton-<br><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation ton@blender.org www.blender.org<br>Blender Institute BV Entrepotdok 57A 1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Bf-taskforce25 mailing list<br>Bf-taskforce25@blender.org<br>http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-taskforce25<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>