[Bf-committers] proposal: tooltip change for modifiers...

Hadrien Brissaud hadriscus at gmail.com
Thu Jul 10 20:25:43 CEST 2014


Just my two cents, I feel "editing cage" makes much sense from a user pov
(at least more than "topology"). The third message I think corresponds
better to what is happening, so I vote for that one ( "Show modifier result
in Edit mode").
On 11 Jul 2014 01:59, "Gaia" <gaia.clary at machinimatrix.org> wrote:

> After taking a closer look on the modifier user interface...
> The current used tooltips are (from left to right)
>
> "Use modifier during rendering"
> "Display modifier in realtime"
> "Use modifier while in edit mode"
> "Apply modifier to editing cage during Edit mode"
>
> And here is a proposal for what i think is less geeky:
>
> "Use modifier during rendering"
> "Use modifier in realtime"
> "Show modifier result in Edit mode"
> "Show complete topology in Edit mode"
>
> My main concern is the usage of the term "editing cage"
> which might be correct, but it appears to me like it escaped
> from a developer's head into the user documentation somehow :)
>
> cheers,
> Gaia
>
> On 10.07.2014 12:20, Bastien Montagne wrote:
> > Not really possible currently, this icon is part of the 'generic' UI of
> > modifiers, nothing specific to the Mirror modifier here…
> >
> > Le 10/07/2014 12:09, Gaia a écrit :
> >> Hello;
> >>
> >> I'd like to propose a tooltip change:
> >> For the mirror modifier's edit icon we see now the tooltip:
> >>
> >>        "Apply modifier to editing cage when in edit mode"
> >>
> >> What about changing this to something like:
> >>
> >>        "Display mesh topology on mirrored side"
> >> or  "Display topology on mirrored side"
> >>
> >> cheers,
> >> Gaia
> >>
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