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

Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelgarte at googlemail.com
Sun Dec 23 19:30:19 CET 2012


Hi,

As long icons aren't disturbing, for example extremely colorful, i 
prefer them often over text. So i would propose to use some more plain 
looking icons, even so this icons are already quite plain. The blender 
icon itself could be deemed as more disturbing and it displays are 
rather useless number behind it. I see this number every time in the 
splash screen, but more importantly i usually need to know the revision 
number instead of the version number.

If we want to be consistent, following your guideline, then we should 
remove this icon as well. I know it is the famous blender icon... :P

Considering the overall design, i have to say that anything goes, as 
long it does not stand out or conflicts heavily with the rest of an 
interface. I for my part would really like to get rid of this hard to 
read text line and would not consider stats as buttons as long they have 
no button-border or react to the mouse while hovering over them.

Greetings from
Tobias Oelgarte

Am 23.12.2012 11:35, schrieb Ton Roosendaal:
> 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-
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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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