[Bf-committers] Auto switch between ortho/persp

[Paweł Łyczkowski]

I'm also in favor of this option.

The solution for an UI that is guessing wrong what you want is an option 
to turn on Auto-Orthographic in the Preferences, then the UI won't even 
have to guess. The description of the function could be "The view will 
change to Orthographic when using Alt-MMB view snap."

For the argument that too much settings in the Preferences can be a bad 
thing - from what I observed, 3d users prefer customizability to having 
simple program Preferences, due to the impact of such tweaks as the one 
discussed on one's workflow.

Regards
Paweł Łyczkowski

2014-05-07 10:59 GMT+02:00 Ton Roosendaal<ton at blender.org  <http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers>>:

>  Hi,
>
>  IMHO auto-ortho or auto-persp are hacks. UIs should not try to think for
>  users or anticipate on what you think might be expected. Keep things simple
>  and atomic and in control. If that means you sometimes have to press an
>  extra key that's at least predictable, and much less irritating than a UI
>  that suddenly thinks you want something - whilst you didn't want it.
>
>  -Ton-
>
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>
>
>  On 6 May, 2014, at 21:51, Hadrien Brissaud wrote:
>
>  >  Hello all,
>  >
>  >  I have a small usability suggestion, but first of all I'd like to know
>  >  where the best place for suggestions would be. It's not the first time I
>  >  write to BF-committers and each time I feel like I'm a bit out of place.
>  >  BF-funboard doesn't seem to get a lot of attention (understandably, not
>  >  complaining here) and I heard developer.blender.org had a place for
>  >  suggestions, which I couldn't find.
>  >
>  >  While I'm here though, I might as well write it ? It's pretty
>  >  straightforward anyway :
>  >  I'd like to suggest a "auto ortho" option in addition to the "auto
>  >  perspective" one. What it would do is basically the opposite of "auto
>  >  perspective", id est switch to ortho view when snapping to an axis with
>  >  alt+MMB.
>  >
>  >  I know everyone is busy and this mailing list is for discussing commits
>  so
>  >  please redirect me to a more appropriate place for suggestions if there
>  is
>  >  one.
>  >
>  >  Good night,
>  >
>  >  Hadrien
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