[Bf-committers] blender UI state

[Campbell Barton]

@mindrones,
This could work but would like to know...

* Who in our existing UI dev team are interested to be involved (even
if only to review & approve proposals)?
  having feedback from existing UI mafia is nice so there is some
authority when a proposal is approved.

* Who works on this? are there new devs that want to be involved? if
so we could make some smaller tasks to have them start.

* Who manages this? - someone to set some direction, scrap wishlist
additions to wiki, kick people for feedback etc (pssst!, DingTo!)


if people don't like to be constrained too much they can write on
their own User blender-wiki pages first so the interface wiki pages
don't become a mishmash and its ensured ideas on the wiki have been
checked to be realistic.


On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Gianmichele Mariani
<g.mariani at liquidnet.it> wrote:
> +1 here too.
>
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:26 PM, David Silverman
> <silvermindyarr at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> +1 to wiki page
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 2:12 PM, mindrones <mindrones at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Campbell,
>> >
>> > On 19 January 2012 20:16, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > We've had many long UI threads on the ML before which just die out
>> > > without much gained besides everyone airing their opinions (which
>> > > often conflict).
>> > >
>> > > Rather then suggesting many random annoyances it would help more IMHO
>> > > if we could focus on specific areas such as...
>> > > - better toolbar layout (operator redo is far too cramped)
>> > > - general panel layout, button spacing / placement, layout engine.
>> > > - re-organizing 3d view header buttons / menu / display panel which is
>> > > currently a shamozzel.
>> > >
>> > > William Ranish's blog post covered some of these issues.
>> > > http://www.blendernation.com/2011/10/29/cleaning-up-the-blender-ui/
>> > >
>> > > The frustrating thing about UI discussions is they tend to go off
>> > > topic far too quick and farly simple stuff gets overlooked/ignored, no
>> > > consensus, nothing happens.
>> >
>> >
>> > would it be useful if I start collecting things in a wiki page and we
>> > start resuming problems there?
>> >
>> > It would be:
>> > - not a discussion page with long rants
>> > - schematic
>> > - possibly with mockups
>> > - only focused on usability.
>> > - divided it in areas (3d, properties, etc)
>> >
>> > and I can help keeping it that way.
>> >
>> > People might discuss here based on proposals collected there, and when
>> > things or blocks of things get approved and fixed we move stuff away
>> > or delete.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Luca
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- Campbell