[Bf-committers] Blender developers meeting minutes - March 24 2013

[Bastien Montagne]

Hi,

On 25/03/2013 00:56, Tamito KAJIYAMA wrote:
> [...]
> BTW, an UI glitch I pointed out in the code review is not fixed yet.
> I have replied to your review comment concerning the UI issue.  Let me quote
> the comment and my reply here:
>
> https://codereview.appspot.com/7416049/diff/1/release/scripts/startup/bl_ui/space_view3d.py#newcode2508
>
>> irieshinsuke 2013/03/21 12:39:58
>>
>> Horizontally split row is too narrow to display labels "Freestyle Edge Marks"
>> and "Freestyle Face Marks", so both of them are truncated to "Freestyle". I
>> think "col = layout.column()" should be inserted here to avoid this glitch.
>>
>> me 2013/03/23 22:46:08
>>
>> I am not fully sure if this change should be made. Any UI label will be
>> truncated when the panel width is narrower than the label width. The Freestyle
>> Edge/Face Mark labels in question can be completely shown if the panel is
>> widen. Brecht told me that UI controls should be organized in two columns in
>> general, and the Overlays section exactly follows this rule. I tend to be
>> reluctant to violate it here.
> I am fully open to any decision in this regard and will do whatever required
> as long as this issue is a merger stopper.
>
> With best regards,
>

Maybe we could simply shorten the names to something like "Edge FMark" 
and "Face FMark" ? The tooltips are here to be more explanatory anyway…

Also, I would move "Seams" to the first column, when freestyle is enabled.

Best regards,
Bastien