[Bf-committers] 3D view / widgets patch

[Jason Saunders]

> I can't really say I'm proud of the current icons for widgets, but this
> doesn't look to me as a real improvement. Each icon has different
> 'language' and style (like rotate has 'motion', the translate has a
> round center, scale has square center?)

Yeah; I'm not sure I like the new icons myself. The reason that the Scale 
icon has a square center is that at the time I was making the icons, the 
Scale widget still had a cube for the center.
I'm really not sure what to do with rotation. The current icon in bf-blender 
doesn't make a lot of sense because the icon doesn't match the widget 
anymore. Anyone have suggestions?

My opinion is still to have the cross-app standard move/rotate/scale icons; 
that way people who are new to blender and/or new to 3D will have a good 
idea what they mean. I can't (personally) think of a way to implement the 
"icons look like widget" idea effectively. The idea is good; i'm just not 
sure how to get a good implementation.

On 4/25/05, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > I had a bit of spare time today, so I made some new icons for
> > the widget mode buttons, and while I was at it added a menu button for
> > Orientation, which shows Local/Global/Normals orientation.
> 
> It would help if you added a picture to the mail.. is it still this:
> http://www.cgartwork.com/jms/icons2.jpg
> 
> I can't really say I'm proud of the current icons for widgets, but this
> doesn't look to me as a real improvement. Each icon has different
> 'language' and style (like rotate has 'motion', the translate has a
> round center, scale has square center?)
> 
> > (The Normals option is not applicable in Object mode, but removing it
> > caused a blank button when exiting Edit Mode/Normals orientation).
> > This may be a bit less useful now that we have alt-space, but it is at
> > the very least a good indicator of which mode you're in.
> 
> Yah, we need something like this in a menu, it could be much smaller
> though.
> 
> > Also, with this patch, it would probably be a good idea to bring
> > back the "click widget center to change orientation" behavior, now
> > that you can clearly see the orientation mode immediately. It was very
> > quick and useful to change modes by clicking :)
> 
> Rotate widget currently has no center... someone else suggested to make
> 'click widget without moving mouse' doing same as pressing G/R/S
> hotkeys, moving around without need to hold down mouse.
> Needs some experimenting.
> 
> > You can get the patch at http://www.cgartwork.com/jms/widgets.patch
> > (I tried attatching the patch to my email, but I kept getting a "post
> > bounced" message that said my email was too big).
> 
> There are 400+ (or so) subscribers to this list, better not send each
> of them huge mails... patches can also be put in our patch tracker if
> you don't have the webspace.
> 
> -Ton-
> 
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