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

[john tuffen]

Quoting Meino Christian Cramer <Meino.Cramer at gmx.de>:

> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Since you are already refactoring the UI:
> Auto-hiding the buttons window.
> 
>  I myself dont like auto-pops ;),
> 
>  firstly -- as already said -- one dont know, what is under the cursor
>  after it pops up and 
> 
>  secondly (this is why I dislike auto-pops most) nothing is more
>  confusing and annoying as items suddenly popping into existence by
>  accidently moving the cursor beyond a certain "border".



Agreed - although the extra screen space is handy.

How about this as a 'middle ground'? Use a keyboard shortcut (a single key) to
show/hide the panel?? We already have the overlay technology in the floating
panels, so the buttons could simply 'float' over the other views...

... Tell you what, how about using (something like) Caps Lock for this? You
usually get a nice visual indicator (the caps-lock LED) that can encapsulate
the visibility-state of the buttons.

Using a keyboard shortcut means you can use the mouse over the entire screen
area without fear of a popup :)


Just a thought :)


john..

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> 
>  
>  Kind regards,
>  Meino
> 
> > 
> > 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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