[Bf-committers] About the location of the Operator panel...

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

A good guideline for UI design is to always consider options and choices to be done only in a last unfortunate case when nothing else can work.

If you need to patch design to make it usable, we better go back to look at the core design concepts itself.

-Ton-

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On 20 Jun, 2013, at 10:40, Gaia wrote:

> Hi, all;
> 
> I asked myself:
> 
> "Why does the operator panel appear in the tool shelf
>   although the operator has been called from the
>   properties sidebar ?"
> 
> At least on a large display that can be really far far away :)
> 
> I have an idea for the case where an operator is called by
> click on a button from within a Panel:  Add a panel option
> to specify where the operator panel shall show up:
> 
> - Bottom of Tool Shelf (default)
> - Bottom of Properties sidebar
> - Bottom of current window (tool shelf or properties bar, ...)
> - Directly Below current panel (maybe not a good idea)
> 
> If the operator was not called from within a panel, then
> fallback to defaults. Regardless of where it appears, the
> operator panel disappears when the next operator is called.
> 
> Benefits:
> 
> - Operator options can appear very near to where the
>   operator was called, thus get much more awareness
> - less moving around on large screens to change operator
>   options.
> 
> Drawbacks:
> 
> - operator panel no longer appears at one fixed location
> 
> However letting the operator panel appear close to our
> current focus of work could possibly be more beneficial
> than relying on operator options to always appear in the
> lower left corner of the screen.
> 
> What do you think about that ?
> 
> -gaia-
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