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

[Gaia]

I took up the icons idea and created a quick mockup for another flyout 
with Icons. see
second image in:

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

Maybe the combination of iconized statistics header with additional info 
in a
flyout window is an interesting alternative ?

Merry Christmas,
Gaia

On 24.12.2012 10:42, Wolter van der Velde wrote:
> I also like the icons very much. The first line in the properties window
> also contains purely informative icons, they don't provide user
> interaction. This works great so i wouldn't call it inconsistent to use
> icons in the header.
> In my opinion icons are very well suited to give information, as the
> saying  goes: 'A picture is worth a thousand words'.
> And considering the overwhelming positive response this idea has gotten,
> which is  quite rare because UI tweaks are always highly subjective, i
> think this is worth a second look.
>
> Wolter
>
> Op 23-12-12 11:35, Ton Roosendaal schreef:
>> 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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