[Bf-committers] Simplified Header Stats (with icons)

[Gaia]

In march 2012 i made this proposal:

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Requests/User_Interface/BlenderStatisticFlyout

Maybe something along that line is a possible option ?

cheers,
Gaia

On 23.12.2012 11:35, Ton Roosendaal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Even though it looks very nice at first sight, I think we should try to keep the visual language of a UI consistent. Icons are UI elements, widgets meant to provide user interaction with data or tools.
>
> Icons are also little eyecatchers, and should best be silent and consistent (and not distract by changing position or shapes all the time). For that reason the current text string is nice noise-free.
>
> I can see the issue of improving the way we provide statistics. We also need better ways to communicate all kinds of states in Blender (which is abusively printed over the 3d window even in cases).
>
> In some other programs, I've seen small statistic panels, that provide a useful input for statistic options as well. Might be a better solution to explore this.
>
> Thanks,
>   
> -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 23 Dec, 2012, at 2:02, Harley Acheson wrote:
>
>> Hello again,
>>
>> I have updated the
>> patch<http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=33573&group_id=9&atid=127>with
>> lots of changes resulting from all the
>> discussions on the BlenderArtists
>> thread<http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?275390-Simplified-Header-Statistics-Display>.
>> The response has been
>> overwhelmingly positive.
>>
>> If you just want a quick peek at what it looks like, the following image
>> shows it off very well:
>> http://projects.blender.org/tracker/download.php/9/127/33573/23279/StatisticsIcons.png
>>
>> Harley
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