[Bf-committers] Nodes auto hide sockets on collapsed nodes

[Bartek Skorupa]

Let me heby begin a little battle against auto-hide sockets of  
collapsed nodes:
Please take a look:

https://vimeo.com/40237189


Bartek Skorupa

www.bartekskorupa.com



On 2012-04-10, at 09:47, Ton Roosendaal wrote:

> Hi Lukas,
>
> I would like to see such usability changes in nodes to go via at  
> least the other listed node UI owners too.
>
> For me huge alarm bells ring when people talk about "adding options"  
> or "giving users choices". That's usually just patching flawed  
> designs...
>
> Remove the autohide for now? We should spend design powers on how we  
> want to work with node systems in general.
>
> -Ton-
>
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> Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org     
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> Netherlands
>
> On 9 Apr, 2012, at 21:10, François T. wrote:
>
>> I'm with Bartek on this one :(
>>
>> 2012/4/9 Lukas Tönne <lukas.toenne at googlemail.com>
>>
>>>> I missed it because now you select socket by left clicking. I was
>>>> trying to select them by right clicking (as it was in 2.49) and  
>>>> when
>>>> it failed I was sure we still don't have this option available.
>>>> This feature is a real time saver.
>>>
>>> The primary way of selecting sockets is with SHIFT + RMB. First this
>>> was implemented as simple RMB select, but this turned out to be  
>>> quite
>>> chaotic since it effectively allows multiple nodes selected (see  
>>> [1]).
>>> Selecting sockets with LMB is a side effect of the select-on-link
>>> "feature" (which i'd like to remove again). You see this area is
>>> pretty complicated, lots of different little features interfering  
>>> with
>>> each other :S
>>>
>>>> Auto hide sockets:
>>>> As I can see from your post you are all the time thinking about
>>>> automatic behavior.
>>>> If I may suggest something - I'd rather leave more options to the  
>>>> user.
>>>
>>> Yeah, i implemented this on explicit request (i think Sebastian  
>>> asked
>>> for it, don't remember), i suggest you talk to him. The CTRL+H idea
>>> seems good, i didn't realize this doesn't work on the auto-hidden
>>> sockets now. Feedback is important for us coders :) Will have to  
>>> check
>>> with core devs if i can add this right away of have to wait for next
>>> BCon1.
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-blender-cvs/2012-March/044066.html
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