[Bf-committers] Extrude Popup

[Matt. D.]

Althought i welcome the changes made by Martin because every change in  
this area is welcome, showing you care about usability, but i think those  
nagging pop-ups should be handled in a different way.
Trying to be smart about what to do based on the users selection and mode  
the user is working in will just not work for different workflows.
While modeling there is very little chance that you want to  
extrude/delete/merge in an other way then the last time you did. For  
example, if i model a head. I am virtually always extruding in vertex  
select mode, i am virtually always deleting verts only when i delete  
something, and i virtually always merge at center because i do organic  
modeling at that time. This is the 'workflow' i am in. But if i where to  
model a building e.g. doing architectural modeling i may need the merge  
tool to do a merge at first/last to keep my walls symmetric, unless i am  
Guggenheim or some other artsy-fartsy architect :). You CAN NOT be smart  
about what i want to model! What my workflow is! Therefore i propose that  
those pop-ups be just the selectors of the mode i want the tool to operate  
in and the tool will always do the same action until i change to a  
different task in my workflow. Imagine a carpenter is done cutting his  
wood and now does some miter work using the same tool but in a different  
way. He would never change the setup of his saw between cuting/mitering  
for each peace he produces. Those tool mode changing pop-ups should be  
invoked with a modifier-key (Shift-E, Shift-M, Shift-Backspace, ...).