<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:tahoma,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">heya Brecht.<br><br>first, let me apoligize for my reference to dictatorship... bad choice of words. i got way too passionate =/<br><br>now that you mention the buttons window, i see the opportunity you're speaking of.<br><span>if you take William's button window mockup here, <a target="_blank" href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Blender2.5/WinterCamp/Properties">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Blender2.5/WinterCamp/Properties</a> , and just add a button along the top with the rest for User Prefs... problem solved!</span><br>All options for all panels one mouse-click or hotkey away!<br>In the following Altered mockup this is visualized.<br><br><span><a target="_blank"
href="http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn291/bobStaub/buttonsWindowMockup_withUserPrefs00.png">http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn291/bobStaub/buttonsWindowMockup_withUserPrefs00.png</a></span><br><br>and even if the Buttons window isn't always open, which it usually should be like you said, it's just a matter of bringin it up and the user has all other options as well.<br>In any event, i know whatever you excellent Devs choose to do, it will be a well thought out and well-oiled machine.<br><br>thanks for the clarification.<br><br>cheers<br><br>brian<br><br><br><div style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Brecht Van Lommel <brecht@blender.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> The Blender 2.5 TaskForce
<bf-taskforce25@blender.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, April 1, 2009 5:10:44 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Bf-taskforce25] User Preferences Mockup and Suggestion<br></font><br>
Hi,<br><br>I think the main advantage of your approach is that it is predictable,<br>but I don't think the only option is to replace a semi-random window.<br><br>For example, the user preferences could replace the buttons window. In<br>most cases you will have this already open an it will be the right size<br>because the contents would also be panels. If no suitable window is<br>found you could have one sliding out, pushing the other windows a bit to<br>the side (alternatively it could always do this).<br><br>It's not perfect, but overlapping windows can also give issues. In the<br>mockup the user preferences window overlaps the 3d view. There's only a<br>bit of overlap in your mockup but depending on screen resolution,<br>subdivided window setup and the size of the user preferences window it<br>may become impossible or inconvenient to do manipulations in the 3d<br>view.<br><br>So in such cases, if you are configuring hotkeys, themes, drawing or<br>view
navigation methods for the 3D view, you end up in a situation where<br>the overlap can becoming annoying. Maybe it only really matters for<br>hotkey and theme configuration because those take time to configure?<br><br>Personally I don't have a strong opinion on this though, I was mostly<br>trying to communicate what I remembered from the Wintercamp discussion.<br><br>Brecht.<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Bf-taskforce25 mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Bf-taskforce25@blender.org" href="mailto:Bf-taskforce25@blender.org">Bf-taskforce25@blender.org</a><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-taskforce25">http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-taskforce25</a></span><br></div></div></div><br>
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