[Bf-committers] faster usage of panels via pie menu

[Charles Wardlaw]

Now that I'm using 2.5 at home, I've been thinking about pie menus a lot.

I find in Modo and Maya, for certain things they're great for
workflow.  I like how in Modo the main ones are triggered by holding
down a keyboard combination, as opposed to Maya's right-click-and-hold
method (which I feel isn't very efficient).  Modo's visual feedback (a
little arrow that spins with your mouse combined with highlighting the
buttons) is also very good. Right now I'm creating operators with
specific prefixes and using space to search for them, but that's not
optimal.

I really like the idea of it popping up a panel like the F6 key,
although the same pie menu in the Properties area could scroll to the
requested panel instead.

I would *kill* for the ability to customize pie menus by creating
custom classes for them.
~ C



On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Tom M <letterrip at gmail.com> wrote:
> Matt and others, on IRC we were discussing how slow and workflow
> disrupting it is to move to the vertical panel layout and then scroll
> to the option you want to tweak.
>
> It was suggested that a hotkey combo bringing up a pie menu of the
> current available panels would be a lot faster, and would eliminate
> the need to scroll, similar to how the F6 key after an operator brings
> up the tweak operator menu.
>
> LetterRip
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