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

[Harley Acheson]

Hello,

This was never about looking nice, but about communicating the information
quickly.  For me the current text string isn't noise-free but almost *all
noise* as it is difficult to quickly extract the meaningful numbers from
the jumble of text.

But in truth this was just an experiment that I had fun playing with and
didn't really expect it to be accepted as-is.  But then I was quite
surprised at the positive response it got from other users.  No worries
though, I'm full of more silly ideas...

Harley



On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 2:35 AM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> 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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