[Bf-committers] Extrude Popup

[Wahooney]

An alternative to the two operators approach is to add in-transform 
options which are modifiable on the fly, like picking the axis/offset in 
the transform tools with keys or the scroll wheel to adjust the number 
of cuts in knife tool.

Another option is to perhaps have the two different modes that just set 
this secondary step AND let the user be able to change the type 
mid-operator.

My will be done ;)
Keith.

On 2010/02/11 03:48 PM, William Reynish wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A lot of fantastic features and fixes has made it into 2.5 recently, but one thing caught my eye as a pretty large setback.
>
> When extruding, a popup menu now appears giving the user several option to choose from. Unfortunately I don't think this is a very good solution, for these reasons:
>
> *It destroys workflow by taking the user out of the current context (mesh manipulation) and into a new one (menu with options). Is distracting and annoying. Your attention is interrupted.
> *It requites an extra click *every* time the user wants to extrude anything
> *It requires extra precision mouse travel to select the relevant option
>
> Extruding is such an oft-used tool that that this has a rather huge negative implications for mesh modeling as a whole. I think anyone would agree to be against popup menus before transforms, and the same applies to other common tools, such as extrude.
>
> While I appreciate the problem that was attempted to be solved with the popup menu, it's pretty disastrous for workflow. Now, there are several alternative solutions possible, but the best one I can think of is as follows:
>
> *Extrude Region / Individual should become two operators, keeping Extrude Region on the E shortcut. Either that, or it's one operator with two settings, which are invoked with two different hotkeys and two different entries in the toolbar.
> *Extrude vert/edge/face should just follow what selection mode you're currently in.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -William
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