[Bf-committers] Since you are already refactoring the UI: Auto-hiding the buttons window.

[Alexander Ewering]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Juan Julio [ISO-8859-1] Peña Mena wrote:

> This was suggested by Scott Wilkinson (aka ex-nihilo in the NaN days) at
> the CGTalk forum:
>
> The UI is more flexible in blender. and huray, I can finally get rid of
> those hot pink colors. Although , I wish the buttons panel at the bottom

The hot pink colours, although I also disliked them, have their purpose,
of course... The mere fact that they're "ugly" is used to distinguish the
selected object and/or non-selected vertices from anything else in the scene,
because not many things in reality are pink. So, they have a good reason
for existance :)

> had an auto hide feature.... that would be cool to have it pop up when
> you put your mouse curser at the bottom of the screen (like the auto
> hide taskbar in windows).

It's an interesting idea, I have KDE configured like this as well. But what
bothers me about it is that I first have to move the mouse blindly to the
bottom of the screen, not knowing which x coordinate i should aim at, and
then when the window (taskbar) popped up, re-initiate my visual scan to
see what i actually wanted to click. It's a huge slow-downer probably, but
it does of course free up screen real estate :)

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