[Bf-committers] Weekly Blender developer meeting minutes - 31 May 2015

[gandalf3]

 From the rather rudimentary look I gave at the other screencast keys 
addon a while ago, it appeared to suffer from all the same major issues 
as the main screencast keys..

I do kind of like having blender specific info like last operator etc. 
displayed, but I'd prefer to have modal keypresses and display in non-3D 
views. I've yet to find any external keypress displaying program (for 
linux) I'm happy with.. So unless anyone has any suggestions it seems 
I'm stuck with screencast keys for the time being :P

On 05/31/15 13:14, Gaia wrote:
> Here is a link which lists some reasons why the tool has been removed:
>
> http://www.blendernation.com/2014/07/02/screencast-keys-addon-is-removed-b3d/
>
> You still can find the "original" tool here:
>
> https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-extensions/trunk/py/scripts/addons/space_view3d_screencast_keys.py
>
> And here is an alternative development:
>
> https://github.com/jedihe/b3d_screencast_keys/blob/master/space_view3d_screencast_keys.py
>
> I am not sure if the alternative works better or not.
> Both scripts seem to work on current Blender versions
> with the known limitations. But i can neither tell if it is
> a good idea to use them or not, nor did i do any in depth
> tests.
>
> -gaia-
>
> On 31.05.2015 21:51, TARDIS Maker wrote:
>> I guess the devs where getting a bunch of bug reports for it and stuff, and
>> they weren't able to take care of them. The main problems with it are that
>> it really only works for the 3D view, and I also heard somewhere that it
>> was inaccurately stating keys, I can't confirm that though. I guess it's
>> also hard to maintain. But there are programs that should do a better job
>> of it, although I haven't found any that actually look nice (but I haven't
>> looked very hard). There's also the option of doing it in the editing
>> stage, but this would be way too complex except for extremely simple things.
>>
>> On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 9:21 PM, TARDIS Maker <tardismodeler at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> That was removed in 2.72 (I believe) because it has situations where it
>>>> doesn't work. You can still find it online, I believe, or you can get it
>>>> out of an older version of Blender.
>>>>
>>> Thanks for the info. Perhaps we should remove all the other things that
>>> have bugs? :-)
>>> Really, this was a good tool. Just because it has corner cases where it
>>> fails does not mean it should be removed. It means it should be worked on.
>>> IMOHO of course.
>>>
>>>
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