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

[Harley Acheson]

Hi,

One change in the patch that has nothing to do with icons is interesting.

It shows the "selected" number only if it is not zero or equal to the
"total"
number.  So for example, if you if you have all vertices selected (or none)
it only shows you the total vertices.

This might not *sound* like a wanted behavior, but it works really well in
practice.  It is so much easier to read "425964" instead of "425964/425964"
or even "0/425964"

Then when you have a subset selected it shows you both numbers and it is
almost like the system is trying harder to show you exactly what you are
interested in.

Harley



On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Joshua Leung <aligorith at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On first glance, this proposal does indeed seem much clearer. As for the
> concerns about the icons being distracting or able to be confused with
> interactive elements, I'd have thought that using monochrome icons instead
> of ones with the orange would be enough.
>
> However, for those who still prefer just text, I did a quick experiment
> just replacing the separators in the stats text with whitespace.
> Specifically,
>     text=scene.statistics().replace("|", "  ")
>
> So, instead of:
>     v2.66.1|Verts: 500|Faces: 200|Objects: 1/12
> we'd have something more like:
>     v2.66.1    Verts: 500     Faces: 200    Objects: 1/12
>
> Even with a simple tweak like this, it's already much faster to scan than
> the original version.
>
>