[Bf-committers] Layer UI

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

The logic is simple: this is not a layer setting itself, but a mask.  
For such buttons the default is to have all on. Same is for proxy,  
render layer mask, the group 'do not show' mask etc.

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands

On 13 Jun, 2011, at 23:41, Daniel Salazar - 3Developer.com wrote:

> There is some annoying behavior in layer UI. Normally as *everything
> else* in blender you click on a layer and it gets enabled, disabling
> all others, if you want to just toggle a single layer you use the
> shift modifier. This works for scene layers, armature layers, vert
> selection, object selection, renderlayers, etc. But when managing
> group layer visibility there is an *exception* here clicking a layer
> works like if you where holding shift.. resulting in 19 clicks to
> disable all other layers, multiply this by who knows how many groups,
> it's a LOT of clicks. What's worst is this is apparently a feature!
> why? is it so hard to press shift if you want to toggle a single
> layer? This seems to me like an anti-feature based on a biased
> assumption. It removes one very desired functionality just so
> someone(?) doesn't have to press shift?
>
> back to pointless clicking!
>
> Daniel Salazar
> 3Developer.com
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