[Bf-committers] Blender -> User Interface

[George Bell]

How about instrumenting the interface to allow for voluntary usage data?
Getting hard data about which features are used and how they are most
frequently accessed through the interface would give a wealth of ideas for
interface improvements.

Perhaps an xml file could log interface usage, then ftp it to blender.org
and then convert it to some nice graphs for everyone to see? (obviously
there would be a yes/no opt-in on the first load, and ability to turn
on/off)

George

 

-----Original Message-----
From: bf-committers-bounces at projects.blender.org
[mailto:bf-committers-bounces at projects.blender.org] On Behalf Of Rui Campos
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 11:59 AM
To: trip somewhere
Cc: bf-blender developers
Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Blender -> User Interface

Hey there,

I think you missed my point here, I just wanted to mention what I think
should be focused for the next release.

And I don't mean "make a new Interface", I like it as it is, at least most
of it, although I think it can be improved in many ways.

And yes, having proper Documentation on how to change anything would really
be good.

Since I can't really help out much on changing the User Interface as I
didn't yet understood how things really work (I didn't have much time yet to
loose on it), I'm doing other things that help Blender too, don't just ditch
me because I don't do code for Blender, I do understand the value of helping
out.

Please understand my post as an idea for future development.


-- Rui --


----- Original Message -----
> And for the love of God,, developers read the forums Blenderartists 
> and cgtalk among others, Lots of basic but good ideas are being tossed 
> around..
>
> Please don't just "make" a new interface and say here!.. Lets try and 
> work together on this one..
>
> Like for one, if someone could document the files to edit and somewhat 
> how with''n the source, that would go a long ways towards someone 
> helping out.. <= it's just a maybe, but still better than nothing..
>
>
>
> On 7/25/06, Rui Campos <rcampos at fusemail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I think that if possible the next version should focus a bit on the 
>> User Interface, there is room for improvements and things that could 
>> benefit Blender.
>>
>> - Broken proposed some time ago the buttons window redesign for more 
>> efficiency.
>> - There is the need to be able to do own keyboard mappings.
>> - Windows could use some more unification, specially in the menus.
>> - Some names could use some changes to better match common CG naming.
>>
>> This is just to name a few things that could be done, I'm sure there 
>> are also more people with excellent ideas out there.
>>
>> But if there can be a biggest focus on the UI for the next version it 
>> would be good, in my opinion of course. I think it could benefit us 
>> all and even new users.
>>
>>
>> Thanks to all for such all the efforts so far :) .
>>
>>
>> -- Rui --
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